ABSTRACT
In 1984, after several months of ‘trying’ I became pregnant. At sixteen weeks I
miscarried. I have never (to my knowledge) been pregnant since. Three years later I
began a single honour Sociology degree and from the very beginning I knew that in my
final-year research project I wanted to focus on the experience of miscarriage. I felt this
was an experience that was often misunderstood and negated. The small-scale
qualitative study that I undertook confirmed this (Letherby 1993).
