Unrecognised and underestimated: the fight to get Australian women proper care after miscarriages

‘Miscarriage is still such a taboo subject,’ says Jade Bilardi, who cofounded the Early Pregnancy Loss Coalition after her experience. Photograph: Penny Stephens/The Guardian

Lying on the ultrasound table, seven weeks into her first pregnancy, Jade Bilardi wasn’t concerned about the light bleeding. She was already thinking ahead to when she’d take maternity leave, imagining being a mother by Mother’s Day.

Then she heard the sonographer say: “Oh, it’s just a blighted ovum.”