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        • CONCEIVE: how does the health of your heart affect the risk of miscarriage?
        • Can bacteria affect the risk of miscarriage?
        • Can sitagliptin help increase stem cells in the wombs of women who have suffered recurrent miscarriages?
        • Does maternal age affect the timing and ease of birth?
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        • How does the immune system affect the chance of miscarriage?
        • Improving miscarriage support for women, partners and family
        • Looking at the lining of the womb to find out if a woman is at risk of miscarriage
        • MAVRIC - testing the abdominal stitch
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        • The effect of sperm damage in miscarriage
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        • Using fetal DNA to find reasons for miscarriage
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        • Asking the right questions – setting the agenda for future stillbirth research
        • Assessing how healthy babies are when they start moving less than normal (FEMINA2)
        • Can low levels of taurine make stillbirth more likely?
        • Could beetroot juice be used to treat fetal growth restriction?
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        • Does arrhythmia cause stillbirth in the babies of women with liver disease?
        • Does specialist care reduce the number of stillbirths?
        • Finding new treatments to improve placental function and prevent stillbirth
        • Improving pregnancy outcomes by engaging women in their own safety (the REACH-UK study)
        • Improving support in a pregnancy after stillbirth or neonatal death (the IMPS study)
        • Improving the management of early onset fetal growth restriction
        • Inflammation of the placenta as a cause of stillbirth
        • Inhibiting microRNAs in the placenta to reduce the risk of stillbirth
        • Is fetal growth restriction caused by failure of the placenta to adapt to nutrient demand?
        • Is there a relationship between bile acid levels and the risk of poor outcomes for babies of mothers with intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP)?
        • MRI techniques to help prevent stillbirth
        • MiNESS – is there a link between stillbirth and a woman’s position going to sleep?
        • Monitoring babies’ movements using the FeHeMo vest
        • Older mothers and the ageing placenta
        • Older mothers and the risk of stillbirth
        • PARROT: using placental growth factor to tell if women are at high risk of pre-eclampsia
        • PITCHES: can UDCA help prevent stillbirth in women with liver disease?
        • PUFFIN: using MRI scans to detect complications of pregnancy hypertension
        • Pregnancy in severely obese women: the Edinburgh Antenatal Metabolic Clinic
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          • Can steroid injections improve blood flow to babies at risk of stillbirth?
          • The role of glutamine and glutamate in fetal growth restriction
          • The role of placental blood vessels in growth restriction and stillbirth
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        • Targeting drugs to the placenta in high-risk pregnancies
        • Testing for microRNAs to find out when the placenta isn’t working
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        • Viagra: is it an effective treatment for stillbirth (STRIDER)
        • What is the best way of helping women with very early fetal growth restriction?
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        • Can hormones in the gut cause diabetes during pregnancy?
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        • Evaluating the impact of a new antenatal screening for gestational diabetes
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        • Finding ways of preventing preterm labour
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        • Infection and fetal development
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        • Is it safe to use antipsychotics during pregnancy?
        • Is progesterone a cost-effective way to prevent preterm birth? (The OPPTIMUM trial)
        • Looking at inflammation in the womb
        • Low-cost methods of predicting premature births in rural communities
        • NifeDipine or Labetalol for treating existing high blood pressure during pregnancy (the PANDA study)
        • PEACHES: finding out how existing high blood pressure can cause pregnancy complications
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        • Predicting gestational diabetes in obese pregnant women
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        • Predicting premature labour: the link between vaginal infections and early birth
        • QUIDS - using fibronectin to find out which women with symptoms of preterm labour are at risk
        • Reducing preterm birth rates
        • STOPPIT-2: can the Arabin pessary prevent premature birth in twin pregnancies?
        • SuPPoRT: finding the best way to prevent preterm birth in women with short cervixes
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        • The GRACES trial: comparing ways of treating diabetes in pregnancy
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        • The QUIPP app: helping doctors decide who is at risk of premature birth
        • The SCOPE study
        • The genetics of premature birth
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        • UPBEAT: how does obesity affect iron levels during pregnancy?
        • Understanding changes in the cervix before birth
        • Using ultrasound to diagnose infections during pregnancy
        • What impact does ‘mild’ ICP have on the baby?
        • Why does cervical damage cause preterm labour?
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          • Can a dietary supplement protect babies from the effects of maternal obesity?
          • High blood pressure in children of obese mothers
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          • Looking at blood in the umbilical cord to find the missing link between obesity in mother and child
          • Maternal Obesity and Offspring Diabetes (the MOOD study)
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          • Metformin doesn’t affect fat distribution in mother or baby
          • Stress and obesity in pregnancy: do stress hormones increase the risk of complications?
          • The EU EarlyNutrition study
          • The Edinburgh Antenatal Metabolic Clinic: following up the babies (the HAPPY study)
          • The HAPPY study: the effects of obese pregnancy on children aged 3-5
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          • UPBEAT: body fat in UPBEAT babies
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          • UPBEAT: finding out if we can help obese women give birth to babies with less body fat
          • UPBEAT: finding out which obese women will have uncomplicated pregnancies
          • UPBEAT: how does obesity affect blood loss after birth?
          • UPBEAT: how to predict gestational diabetes in obese women
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          • UPBEAT: is fat gain during pregnancy linked to diabetes in obese women?
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Early miscarriage stories

Women share their stories of early miscarriage.

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    3rd Miscarriage at 7wks

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    My Story #miscourage

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    My first pregnancy - ended in miscarriage

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    Im Faulty

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    The one that got away

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    Shona's Story

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    I will always wonder about you as every year passes by

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    The happiest & saddest time of our lives

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    A glorious accident turned sour

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