 Helping Others
One of the most helpful things you can do is talk about your loss. Sharing your experience not only helps you, it helps others. If women didn't suffer miscarriage in silence, we would heal better, and we'd discover how common miscarriage is. We could also share information about testing, and whether it makes sense to simply try again, or seek a diagnostic evaluation.
Ask Your Legislators to
Prevent Pregnancy Loss
Our legislators can help in two ways: directing more research toward causes of miscarriage and preterm birth, and passing laws that require insurers to cover testing and treatments after loss.
Ask for more research funding
In 2004, the National Institutes of Health spent only $9.1 million on research to prevent miscarriage and stillbirth, making pregnancy loss among of the lowest funded conditions. If you believe this should change, tell your legislators.
 More money simply must be directed toward research to prevent all stages of pregnancy loss and preterm birth. Without adequate research dollars, rigorous trials to generate reliable scientific results cannot occur, the pace of care improvements will be impaired, and pregnancies that could have been saved with better care will continue to be lost.
Ask for laws to mandate insurance coverage for testing
If you believe that every family should be entitled to seek answers after pregnancy loss, contact your legislator about a key obstacle to testing after loss: insurance coverage for testing.
Doctors often say that more testing isn’t done after pregnancy loss because insurers won’t pay for it. In some cases, that is accurate, but this is far from a universal truth.
Coverage varies among insurers, and among states. Twelve states have passed legislation that targets this problem.
For more information about legislation by state, see the American Society of Reproductive Medicine’s website or contact your state Insurance Commissioner’s office.
 Please contact each of your state representatives and ask how your state is working to secure testing after pregnancy loss.
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