Lily Allen recently described the two pregnancies that followed her miscarriage as “terrifying”, admitting that she found comfort in food and avoided exercise because she didn’t want to take any risks. With an estimated 1 in 5 pregnancies ending in miscarriage it is a familiar scenario to thousands of women who are facing pregnancy after miscarriage.

Dr Lisa Phillips-Leece is a clinical psychologist and author of the book Surviving Miscarriage – In the Arms of An Angel. She is also a mother to 3 and has experienced 4 miscarriages. Dr Phillips-Leece says that for many women miscarriage can be very complex, particularly because of the social silence that surrounds it. “Nobody wants to talk about it,” she says. “Which can make women feel “misunderstood, isolated and unheard.”

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