A miscarriage can be very devastating experience. It comes with mixed emotions, feelings of your body failing to fulfill its purpose, feelings of losing your child. Woman and his partner need support and help dealing with the loss. As a midwife, taking care of a woman going through a miscarriage you’ll need to be very sensitive and show your empathy. Even though woman’s body heals quickly A woman’s mind might need a lot of time to heal.

The subject to our thesis came from the Kätilöopisto maternity hospital. The gynaecological polyclinic requested us to make a systematic review of the literature in which we round up facts of how one can support a woman who’s going through a miscarriage. They requested concrete forms of support that one could use in his/hers job as a midwife.

We open up facts of miscarriage, how it’s treated and what might be the reason behind it. We also explain what crises are, how one normally reacts to traumatic event and how is the one going through crises, supported. In general we go through finnish health care system and how miscarriage is treated at HUS hospitals.

We used some books and journals and also electronic databases to search for reports and other published materials from all over the world. We used the help of information specialist from our school from whom we also received guidance to information searching. We mainly used data-bases Ebsco and Elsewier.

We believe our work can be used in gynecological polyclinic and hospital wards. The results of our study are very concrete and every nurse has a possibility to use them when taking care of a patient going through a miscarriage. It’s possible to start creating general guidance based on our study as well as create an enquiry to the patients and their partners about the treatment of miscarriage.