Workplace Wellbeing: Why compassion and time to recover are needed after an early miscarriage

Around 14,000 expectant women in Ireland lose their babies each year, but only mothers whose pregnancies end after 24 weeks are entitled to paid leave and the time to recuperate, while their partners have even fewer rights

Mommy's trying to work, little one

Róisín Moriarty, from Mallow, was at work when she started to miscarry her baby.

“It was 2013 and I was working as a duty manager in a cinema,” says the now 43-year-old. “I was 10 weeks pregnant with our second child and when I went to the toilet in the middle of the day, I noticed some spotting. I rang my doctor, who told me to keep an eye on it. When I finished work and the bleeding got heavier, I went to the hospital.”