Do the majority of people never experience miscarriage? Scanxiety looming!

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I am currently 12 weeks pregnant (today). Have had 3 healthy scans so far, the last being at 10 weeks and have my dating scan next week. The usual anxiety and fear is looming and everything I read on Mumsnet seems like so so many people had a miscarriage at some point or another. Is this disproportionate to real life? Can't help but worry! Silly I know! Trying to reassure myself that baby is more likely to be ok than not!

Many women do do miscarry but the vast majority are early as in before 6 weeks. Years ago we thought we were just late on often but modern sensitive tests mean many know they are pregnant and miscarry. By 12 weeks the risk is far lower

Tommy’s estimate that 1 in 4 women miscarry. It’s difficult to know exactly as some women will miscarry before the know they’re pregnant and so the stats for people reporting a miscarriage is 1 in 5, they believe 1 in 4 is more representative.

So yes, the majority of women won’t experience a miscarriage but there is still large number of women that will. Once you have seen a heartbeat the odds of having a miscarriage are significantly reduced. As you move into the second trimester the risk of miscarriage is 1-2%.

With everything, you’re more likely to read the negative experiences than the positive experiences as that is what people seek support for.

Been 50/50 for me once past 6wk. Some women never experience miscarriage at all and others have more than their fair share of them. Chances lower the further you get and having positive scans lowers the risk further but there is still a risk, I mc my last after seeing baby with hb on a scan. It's so worrying in the early days but you have to keep hoping all is well.
Good luck

Thanks yes that makes sense! I think what I'm trying to work out if 1 in 4 roughly end in miscarriage, how many women experience a miscarriage at some point in life. Higher than 1 in 4 presumably. But I suppose naturally the threads I am reading draw people who have experienced that so the number seems disproportionately high!

It isn’t 1 in 4 pregnancies that end in miscarriage. 1 in 4 women experience a miscarriage. That will be at some point over their lives. That figure will include the women who have recurrent miscarriages and also the women who miscarry before they realise they’re pregnant. Threads about pregnancy loss should only have those women who have experienced pregnancy loss. It would be insensitive for a woman who hasn’t experienced pregnancy loss to comment on one of those threads with something other than ‘sorry for your loss’.