A pastoral approach to bereavement and miscarriage
One of the most common things we heard from friends after suffering our miscarriage was this: ‘It’s really common, it happens to lots of people’.
Michael Prest
Our well-meaning comforters were of course right. Miscarriage is very common1. Research suggests that at least 20% of confirmed pregnancies end in miscarriage, roughly 200,000 pregnancies each year in the UK.2
