New Zealand grants automatic paid leave after miscarriage
The bereavement allowance gives employees three days’ leave when a pregnancy ends with a stillbirth.
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The bereavement allowance gives employees three days’ leave when a pregnancy ends with a stillbirth.
Clare Cullen describes her experience of miscarriage in a hospital without her husband, due to Covid restrictions.
Markle said in an article for the New York Times that she lost her second child in July.
Kitty Maguire works with a lot of women who have suffered miscarriages. Today is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day, and until now, Kitty hadn’t written about her own loss.
The Corrs musician was speaking on the Late Late Show last night.
It is difficult going through a miscarriage with all the confused emotions that brings, without being censored too, writes Darragh Quinn.
Her name and face are known the country over. She left a mark on Ireland, its medical care and its laws.
The company argued that it had not unfairly dismissed the woman as it was unaware at the time of dismissal of her pregnancy.
Holding the tiny body in the palm of my hands, counting perfectly formed fingers, looking into eyes that would never see, my heart broke into a million pieces, writes Ethna Quirke.
When Thomas suffered her second miscarriage at the six-week mark again, it hit her like “a tonne of bricks” she said.
One reader tells us her story about having a miscarriage, to encourage others to talk about an issue which ends one in four pregnancies.
Eight women who all feel that miscarriage needs to be spoken about more.
The Scottish First Minister said she wanted to challenge assumptions and judgements that are made about women who don’t have children.
A new, controversial embryo-growth breakthrough could help science in the study of infertility. However, fears abound that the research breaches ethical guidelines.
Losing a baby through miscarriage, especially in your first trimester, is a very peculiar and isolated kind of grief. All I wanted was for people to acknowledge our loss and say ‘I am sorry ’.
Broadcaster Sarina Bellissimo was speaking about the pressures she faced after experiencing a miscarriage.
In their viral video, Sam surprised Nia about her pregnancy.
The country has one of the toughest anti-abortion laws in the world.
In El Salvador, one of only nine countries in the world that has a total ban on abortion, suicide accounts for 57% of all deaths of pregnant girls aged under 19.
42,000 women in Ireland are diagnosed each year with a mental health illness and emotional trauma surrounding pregnancy and childbirth.
The Equality Tribunal said Lisa Mullen was subjected to a “range of unlawful treatment and comments” by her employer.
A study of pregnancies in Denmark found that alcohol consumption was a factor in 1 in 10 miscarriages.
The study is not cause for alarm, but “it’s far from reassuring that BPA is safe” for women, said leading fertility doctor.
Recent events has women opening up about their negative experiences of Irish maternity hospitals.
Politicians philosophising within the walls of the Dail might have felt like they were doing something important – but restricting abortion doesn’t stop it from happening: it simply makes it an issue of economic inequality, writes Nick Beard.
Until recent years, miscarriage was not something that was spoken about: it was simply brushed under the carpet. But couples should not be afraid to be open about their grief – talking will help them to heal, writes Deirdre Pierce-McDonnell.
Each of my miscarriages were different experiences, but they’ve all had a lasting affect on my life, writes an anonymous contributor.
The HSE’s clinical review report is due to be published this afternoon.
From Medical Council guidelines to possible legislation, is Savita the X Case of this generation?
Savita Halappanavar’s death has impacted a nation and made ripples across the globe.
The widower looks ahead as he continues in his pursuit for the full truth about Savita’s death.
Mr Halappanavar said he has a responsibility to Savita and her family “to get to the bottom of the truth”.
It is expected that two witnesses who spoke last week and who were recalled will speak today.
Proceedings are due to resume at 10am this morning.
Consultant obstetrician Dr Katherine Astbury who treated Savita will be questioned over whether she referred to Ireland’s Catholic ethos when she refused to terminate her pregnancy.
The complex procedure performed before pregnancy helps women who have a weak cervix to carry to full term.
The death of Savita Halappanavar shows once again that we delay proper action until an international outcry forces our hand.
Andanappa Yalagi spoke to the media about his daughter’s tragic death, and said he intends on taking legal action against the hospital in which Savita died.
An international expert in obstetrics and gynaecology is to join the inquiry team reviewing the death of Savita Halappanavar in Galway.
The 25-year-old was critically wounded in the Aurora cinema shooting earlier this month.