What Her Body Is
Already Telling You
A practitioner's guide to recurrent pregnancy loss, trauma, and the moments in between.
This guide grew directly out of a Q&A. After presenting on the biology of recurrent pregnancy loss and trauma at the 10th Annual Virtual Conference on Recurrent Pregnancy Losses and Human Reproduction, doctors kept asking the same three questions. This is where I answered them properly, in writing, so it can sit on your desk rather than in your memory of a Q&A session.
For doctors, fertility specialists, midwives & allied clinicians
of women who experience pregnancy loss receive no referral to any form of psychological or trauma support afterward. Whatever else does or doesn't happen for her, the appointment with you is very often the whole of her care. That is not a criticism of clinical practice. It is the reason this guide exists.
Three things you can hold in the room
Not more theory. What to actually do, without stepping outside your scope.
In the Acute Phase
What you can do at the point of loss, in the minutes and days that follow, without extending the appointment.
What Trauma Looks Like In Her Body
Reading the nervous system while you're treating her, not just at the point of loss, so what looks like anxiety or non-compliance isn't mistaken for it.
Preconception Care, Without Referring Away
What you can add to the treatment plan you already run, without new tests or extending the appointment.
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A free, practitioner-facing guide you can keep on your desk and refer back to, straight from the questions clinicians asked me directly.
