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This paper presents findings from a community survey conducted in November and December 2019 involving 40 women who had experienced miscarriage. The survey examined attitudes toward specialist grief support, barriers to access, and where women believed such support should exist within healthcare systems.

The data reveals a consistent and significant gap between the emotional support women needed and what the healthcare system provided. The majority of respondents received no professional referral after their loss. While initial openness to grief coaching was moderate, it rose sharply once the structure and focus of that support was clearly described, with most respondents moving to the highest possible score.

These findings, situated alongside the development of The Pregnancy Loss Recovery Method™, the six-pillar neuroscience-informed framework built over the years that followed, establish both the need for and the shape of specialist practitioner training in this field.

This paper argues that becoming a trained, trauma-informed pregnancy loss practitioner is not a niche specialisation but an urgent response to a documented, persistent gap in human healthcare.