MOURNING WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN

When you speak to women who had amiscarriage, you quickly realise that many of them would like to know why their pregnancies ended so suddenly, but that the answer often eludes them. If you ask doctors about it, they acknowledge that it’s a tough situation as there sometimes really is no answer. But it remains difficult for a woman to simply accept her miscarriage as “one of those things”.

“Every week, I see two to three patients who’ve had a miscarriage,” says the Cape Town based gynaecologist and obstetrician Dr Martin Puzey. “And usually I can put them at ease by telling them