Kathryn Taylor

I am 38 years old and I have no children. I always thought that I would have some, one day, but time and circumstances aren’t on my side. I am a sufferer of recurrent miscarriage. I’ve been pregnant 3 times in as many years. All were missed miscarriages (where the mc is only discovered by ultrasound scan). The first two (November 2011 and May 2012) reached just over 6 weeks and heartbeats were seen in previous scans (undertaken due to spotting) on both occasions. Then, nothing. The third was in June 2013, another mmc at a 13 week routine scan. That time, we had seen a good heartbeat at 9.1 weeks and really thought we might have made it.

The good news is that there’s nothing wrong with me (well, except for all the dead babies, obviously). I know this to be true because I have had every single test there is, and I am within ‘normal’ ranges for all of them.

This is my story. I hope that it will help others who find themselves in this situation to make some sense of it, and maybe know what to do and what questions to ask whilst negotiating all the NHS and beyond has to offer.