How to prevent 10,000 miscarriages a year

Big Fat Negative: TTC, fertility, infertility and IVF

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Kids & Family, Health & Fitness, Parenting, Alternative Health

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Oonagh Pickering is one of the research nurses at Tommy's whose study on graduated miscarriage care has already changed how the Scottish NHS approaches care after pregnancy losses -- and now they want England to make a change, too. Oonagh joins us to talk about how offering extra care following first and second miscarriages, including progesterone for threatened miscarriages, extra scans and mental health care, could help to prevent up to 10,000 miscarriages a year in the UK.

Meanwhile, Ed Coats, medical director at The Evewell, West London, joins us to talk about rest after embryo transfers -- do you need to?

Hi, we're Emma and Gabby from BFN, the UK's biggest podcast about infertility and IVF. We're on our eighth series now, but at the beginning we shared our own IVF journeys. If you'd like to hear about them, go back to the first series of the podcast. You'll get to know us better that way, too.

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0:00.0	Hello. You're listening to BFN. This is the podcast about infatility, IVF and the trials of trying for a baby. I'm Emma.
0:17.5	And I'm Gabby and we're both card carrying members of the Infertility Club.
0:28.6	Hi, hello. Hey, hi. How are you?
0:33.1	Good. I'm good, thanks. Yeah, I'm really trying hard not to mention the weather.
0:37.5	You're going to have to mention the freaking weather. I feel like you can't mention the weather. All we do is talk about the weather. Yeah, I know, but it's lush. It's hot, it's hot, it's hot, hot, hot. Yeah, it's beach weather, isn't it? Beach weather, yeah. I mean, we've got the bank holiday. Mm-hmm, we do.
0:54.6	It's like all the stars have aligned for us, Brits, this weekend.
0:57.8	So rare.
0:59.3	It doesn't happen very often.
1:01.1	No.
1:02.1	Oh, no.
1:03.5	I went to the beach yesterday.
1:06.5	Mm-hmm.
1:07.2	I don't think I'm going today.
1:09.0	I am going tomorrow and Monday.
1:10.7	So it's a beach weekend. I'll tell you where I'm going today. I am going tomorrow and Monday. So it's a beach again.
1:13.1	I'll tell you where I am going today. I think go outdoors.
1:18.9	Eye ropes. A big one. No, no, no. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Yeah, okay. Not I was thinking
1:25.1	go ape. Go outdoors, which is a camping is a big camping shop. Which one you go to? You go to the massive one in Canterbury? Yes. Yes, she is. Yeah, my husband's obsessed with it. I think it's because he's not really an outdoorsy guy. Right. It's quite surprising, really, when you know him.
1:44.8	But he gets really into it when we go to go outdoors.
1:47.4	So, yeah, we're going camping next week for far too many nights, I think.
1:51.0	I'm scared.
1:52.6	So we're going to get some supplies.
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