No longer brushed off: A Minnesota clinic tries to rewrite medicine’s approach to miscarriage
“If you neglect miscarriage, you miss that opportunity of really positively affecting not only the patient but her child, her parents, and her siblings for generations. That’s a legacy.”
WOODBURY, Minn. — By the time Taylor Teske came to be sitting on an exam table in an obstetrician’s office in Minnesota, her medical records marked a devastating journey: nine pregnancies, one baby, eight miscarriages.
The first miscarriage happened in June 2018, almost as soon as she found out she was pregnant. Teske told her boss at the vascular clinic where she worked that she was pregnant, and he asked if she wanted to sneak a look using the clinic’s ultrasound. He searched for sounds on the black-and-white screen. Minutes passed, but nothing happened. An obstetrician-gynecologist later confirmed that Teske was having a miscarriage.
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