Tests after first baby loss could prevent 10,000 miscarriages a year, study claims 

“Waiting for enough bad things to happen until you can finally do something” — that’s how one woman described the frustration of the current standard of miscarriage care, and it’s exactly the status quo a new UK study is challenging.

In this piece for Natural Womanhood, Kristen Curran unpacks a pilot study from Tommy’s, a UK pregnancy and baby charity, which found that offering women follow-up care and testing after their first miscarriage — rather than waiting for the traditional three-loss threshold — could prevent over 10,000 miscarriages a year in the UK alone. The article walks through Tommy’s “graded model of miscarriage care,” the surprising rates of undiagnosed conditions like thyroid dysfunction and anemia uncovered through earlier testing, and how this approach echoes the root-cause, whole-person philosophy long championed by Restorative Reproductive Medicine (RRM). It’s a compelling look at what happens when grief and loss are met with real investigation instead of a simple “try again.”

Want to learn more? Read the full article on Natural Womanhood.