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The Clinical Pregnancy Loss Research Team at Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH) & the Pregnancy Loss Research Group @ UCC. Shares ≠ endorsement Website: www.ucc.ie/pregnancyloss Related sites: https://linktr.ee/pregnancylossresearchgroup

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · Nov 9

We've created a starter pack for anyone interested in any form of pregnancy loss/endings

If you want to be added (or have suggestions for additions), please let us know

@keelinodonoghue.bsky.social, @maritahennessy.bsky.social

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 9h

SPHE Network 25th Anniversary Biennial Conference | From Strong Foundations to Emerging Horizons: 25 Years of SPHE

📆 8 November

📍DCU All Hallows Campus, Dublin / 💻

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SPHE Conference - SPHE Network

The SPHE Network is delighted to announce its 25th Anniversary Biennial Conference, a pivotal event marking a quarter-century of dedication to Social,

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 12h

Last night we launched two new resources:

🧰 Pregnancy Loss & the Workplace: A Toolkit for Employers & Employees

📖 Words at Work: Experiences of pregnancy loss in the workplace {up to 23 weeks}

Available on our website-please share & use 🙏

@keelinodonoghue.bsky.social

www.ucc.ie/en/pregnancy...

New national resources launched to create more compassionate workplaces for people who experience pregnancy loss | University College Cork

Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 23h

Why are women still treated as a statistical anomaly in health research?

@quiteclare.bsky.social

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Clare Moriarty: Why are women still treated as a statistical anomaly in health research?

I remember a doctor discussing the “challenging” recovery that follows a Caesarean, as though launching a human skull through the birth canal was mere lady stuff

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 1d

via @oireachtasnews.bsky.social: Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her plans to implement the recommendations of the 2024 PLACES report commissioned by her Department on pregnancy loss

www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/q...

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Departmental Reports

Departmental Reports Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 2 October 2025

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight in City Hall, Cork we published "Words at Work"

Each text in the book is a direct quotation from a person with experience of pregnancy loss who participated in the PLACES Project
www.ucc.ie/en/pregnancy...

@keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @maritahennessy.bsky.social #PLRG_WordsAtWork

Abstract image of two black pencil-drawn circles on white background with black text Words at Work: Experiences of pregnancy loss in the workplace {up to 23 weeks}

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 1d

Listen Back: One woman’s story of isolation through her miscarriage - @quiteclare.bsky.social speaks with Shane Coleman on @newstalkfm.bsky.social Breakfast

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Clare Moriarty @quiteclare.bsky.social · 3d

Thirdly, you can have the best people on earth working in these roles, but without proper infrastructure/spaces, they can't fulfil potential/discharge proper care. I queued for D&C surgery alongside ppl awaiting delivery, could hear babies cry when I woke up from surgery.

Text: "Finally, infrastructure. There is compassion in good design. The row of seats that face the registration desk in the hospital I attended for miscarriage surgery contained me and two heavily pregnant women checking in to give birth. Having had this experience, I feel I can say with confidence that there’s a good reason you wouldn’t have a wedding planner and an undertaker share a reception.

Similarly, because of construction works at the hospital and some necessary repurposing of rooms, I could hear newborn cries from the recovery bed where I ate my first bites of post-surgery toast. Again, an emotional hardship most could do without.

The urgency of better, newer hospitals is not just about better facilities and technology, it should be about taking us out of buildings that are not fit for purpose – and that’s leaving aside the legacy of the carceral ghosts that inhabit many of these institutions, the sites of so much injustice against women on this island in recent history."

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Clare Moriarty @quiteclare.bsky.social · 3d

The second was to take your knowledge of your body seriously. I knew my dates and my cycle well, but when things weren't measuring right, I let myself believe that I'd got the dates and my cycle length wrong. Looking back, I could have spared myself some pain here if I believed myself.

Text: My second big lesson was to trust my knowledge of my body. As a philosopher working primarily on the history of science, I think I have a pretty healthy mixture of, on the one hand, appropriate deference to medical expertise and, on the other, the kind of scepticism over clinical certainty that is a necessary byproduct of having studied the way scientific knowledge evolves over time.

I’ve had a very regular 29-day cycle for most of my adult life. When early scans showed that the blastocyst was not the right size for its gestation, I let myself be talked around to the idea that I was wrong about my dates and cycle length and that everything was probably okay. Of course, people will try to allow a person to keep a hope alive where it’s wanted (and it’s difficult for health practitioners to ever know your medical values), but I feel I could have spared myself some subsequent grief if I had trusted myself.

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Clare Moriarty @quiteclare.bsky.social · 3d

My first insight is that, for those of us who had our first babies in the height of COVID, a normalisation of isolated fertility care set in that was hard to shake. Years later, I went in for my miscarriage surgery alone, because I genuinely didn't think to ask if I could bring my husband.

Text reads: "So I knew no other way, and the loneliness of that clinical experience never really occurred to me at the time. However, it normalised a sense of pregnancy as a purely individual business in a way that I look back on very differently now.

When, at just more than 13 weeks, I went into the hospital for my booking appointment and learned I’d lost the pregnancy, I scrambled to get a D&C (dilation and curettage) appointment immediately. I wanted to be through it as quickly as I could. When the day came for surgery, I had so internalised the normality of medical isolation in my Covid pregnancy that I didn’t even think to ask could I bring my husband to the hospital with me.
I just assumed I couldn't"

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Clare Moriarty @quiteclare.bsky.social · 3d

More professional oversharing from me in the Irish Times today. Three years on, I look back at what I think I've learned from my miscarriage experiences.
It's paywalled, but I'll pull some of the major ideas below.

www.irishtimes.com/health/your-...

In hospital for my miscarriage surgery, I waited with two women checking in to give birth

There is compassion in good design. You wouldn’t have a wedding planner and an undertaker share a reception

www.irishtimes.com

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 1d

Exploring the Abortion Stigma Hierarchy in Reproductive Healthcare

Rikki Roscoe & Rachael Hernandez

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Exploring the Abortion Stigma Hierarchy in Reproductive Healthcare

Abortion remains a contentious legal issue, and beliefs about its social acceptance are complex and divisive. Few Americans hold absolutist views, leaving ambiguity around which circumstances are d...

www.tandfonline.com

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 2d

💜 Join us during #BabyLossAwarenessWeek #BLAW as we continue our efforts to effect change around all forms of pregnancy & infant loss: www.ucc.ie/en/pregnancy...

@keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @danielnuzum.bsky.social @lauralinehan.bsky.social @caroline-oconnor.bsky.social @carolinemjoyce.bsky.social

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 3d

#ISPID2025 starts today. Sending our best wishes to all involved 💜

Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 8d

#ISPID2025 kicks off this day week. Anne-Marie Farrell will present two papers at this year's conference

#OnlineInformation #Misinformation #ReducedFetalMovement

#Stillbirth #Ireland #Prevention

Our research: www.ucc.ie/en/pregnancy...

@keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @npec-ucc.bsky.social

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SPHeRE PhD Programme @sphereprogramme.bsky.social · 3d

Abstract Submission is now Open for the 12th SPHeRE Network Annual Conference on Thursday, February 19th. "Bridging the Gap: Advancing Population Health Equity in Ireland" is the theme of the conference. Abstract Submission deadline is Monday 3rd November 2025.
www.sphereprogramme.ie/abstract-sub...

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 3d

The Health Research Podcast Episode 3: Gaps in Women's Health Research

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmA5...

@hrbireland.bsky.social

The Health Research Podcast Episode 3: Gaps in Women's Health Research

YouTube video by Health Research Board

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 4d

Clinician Perspectives on Navigating Conversations Around Racial Disparities in Obstetrics

Eileen Wang-Koehler, Oluwadamilola Oshewa, Sindhu Srinivas, Abike James, Rebecca Hamm

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Irish Hospice Foundation @irishhospice.bsky.social · 6d

#SoulfulSunday

Today we share “Grief is a Butterfly” by poet Toni Young.

If you’re grieving, our Bereavement Support Line is here to listen:
☎️ 1800 80 70 77 (Mon–Fri, 10am–1pm)
👉 bereaved.ie
📸 Image credit: Toni Young (Instagram: @toniyoungpoems)

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 6d

Integrated-Care Post Miscarriage: A Model for Psychological Screening and Follow-Up in Primary Healthcare and Obstetric and Gynecologic Settings

Halpern, Tamar (2018)

www.proquest.com/docview/2036...

Ping #ReCurrentStudy

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 6d

Inequities in Care During Pregnancy Loss: Empirical Insights From Experiences With Canadian Perinatal Care

Wendy Hall, Nisha Malhotra, Esther Clark, Karen Hodge, Gabrielle Griffith, Saraswathi Vedam

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Inequities in Care During Pregnancy Loss: Empirical Insights From Experiences With Canadian Perinatal Care

Inequities in Canadian Care during Pregnancy Loss.

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 6d

Weathering the Storm: An examination of fetal loss, maternal age, and norms of race and sexuality

Doctoral Thesis - Andrew Latinsky

repository.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/ob...

Weathering the Storm | FSU Digital Repository

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 7d

How Secondary Trauma in Obstetrics Alters Practice Patterns: A Scoping Review

Siobhan Woods ∙ Chloe Lau ∙ Taryn Taylor

www.jogc.com/article/S170...

How Secondary Trauma in Obstetrics Alters Practice Patterns: A Scoping Review

Traumatic obstetrical experiences, such as shoulder dystocia, postpartum hemorrhage, and perinatal mortality, impact both patients and their obstetric providers. The influence of such secondary trauma...

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 7d

Paracetamol (acetaminophen) use during pregnancy and autism risk: Evidence does not support causal association

Frank Louwen, Eileen Deuster, Fionnuala McAuliffe, Bo Jacobsson, Michael Geary, Steven Fleischman, Anne-Beatrice Kihara

obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

OBGYN

Recent political statements linking paracetamol (acetaminophen) use during pregnancy to autism spectrum disorders have created concern among patients and healthcare providers worldwide. This editoria...

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 7d

Unveiling the unseen: Exploring stigma in stillbirth care through interdisciplinary narratives

Agata Freedle, Natasha Nurse-Clarke, Jessica Sember, Julie Bindeman,Terri Major Kincade, CJ Jones

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Unveiling the unseen: Exploring stigma in stillbirth care through interdisciplinary narratives

Stigma in healthcare settings is a well-documented issue that affects patient care and outcomes. However, limited research has explored how stigma impacts stillbirth care specifically. This study a...

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 7d

#BSACP2025 takes place today. Best wishes to all involved including our own Dr Deirdre Hayes-Ryan. The rest of the team will be following developments remotely.

@cosrh.org @bpas.bsky.social @msichoicesuk.bsky.social @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social

Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 16d

Dr Deirdre Hayes-Ryan will present two posters at the upcoming 2025 @bsacp.org.uk Conference in London - do say hello if you're there!

Read more about our research here: www.ucc.ie/en/pregnancy...

#BSACP2025 @cosrh.org @bpas.bsky.social @msichoicesuk.bsky.social @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 8d

Nurses' and midwives' perceptions and strategies to cope with perinatal death situations: A systematic literature review

Cristina Garcia-Catena, Pablo Ruiz-Palomino, Steven Saavedra, Juan Gonzalez-Sanz

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Nurses' and midwives' perceptions and strategies to cope with perinatal death situations: A systematic literature review

Aim The aim of this paper is to describe the strategies used by nurses and midwives to cope with experiences of dealing with perinatal death and maintain their satisfaction at work. Design Systema...

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