The loss of a child is a very traumatic event for any family and the loss of an unborn child is especially traumatic for a woman suffering from a miscarriage.
Miscarriage is a newly explored trauma as it has only been recognized recently.
Ten to twenty percent of clinically recognized pregnancies end in miscarriage. Women have suffered from perinatal loss for years however, only in recent years, miscarriage has become acceptable to discuss and research. Due to the fact that loss is a relatively new area of research, appropriate and effective treatments for women of pregnancy loss is young. Although miscarriage has not been documented as resulting in PTSD or PTSD symptoms, the reality is that should the trauma of fetal loss goes untreated, the women affected face the danger of chronic PTSD or Major Depression. Miscarriage as a trauma is then explored followed by a brief discussion of the treatments available to date for a pregnancy loss.