Does risk of miscarriage run in families?

When Rosemary Maina, 32, suffered her third miscarriage in as many years, she was torn between giving up on trying again and forging ahead, hopeful that the next time would be the one. And as she struggled through the pain of loss, her marriage suffered too.

“I have always had blood pressure issues and I thought that it was why I lost my babies. It did not also help that my mum and aunts had all suffered numerous miscarriages. But after the third miscarriage at 15 weeks, the doctor told me I had an incompetent cervix. And I think my husband heard that it meant that I could not bear him a child. We are on a rocky road now,” she says.