We need to end the silence around miscarriage

On World Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day, Jennifer Stevens recalls her own experience and speaks to the women who contributed to Miscarriage in Ireland, an Irish Examiner special report, earlier this year

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Loss was a recurrent theme in my life for almost five years. It was there through every celebration, every family gathering, birthdays, Christmases, holidays. Like a shadow following me on a sunny day, it was something I couldn’t shake.

Between 2013 and 2017 I had four miscarriages.