Jodie Evans, 22, from Wolverhampton, has spoken out after suffering a miscarriage at home, claiming that doctors told her the bleeding she experienced was normal and that she could wait five weeks for an NHS scan.
Evans, who works in a jewellery shop, discovered she was five weeks pregnant with her first child on June 10, 2026. Towards the end of July, when she was seven weeks pregnant, she began experiencing painful bleeding and contacted her GP.
According to Evans, she was informed that no appointments were available until she was 12 and a half weeks along, and was reassured it was fine to wait. Still concerned, she arranged a private scan at 10 weeks, where she was told the baby had no heartbeat and had died at six weeks and six days.
Private scan reveals loss
Evans said the doctors told her a scan was unneeded. "I kept getting declined so I booked a private one at 10 weeks to ease my brain," she said. "All my pregnancy symptoms had gone overnight when I started worrying, like my sore breasts and cravings and I asked my midwife as it said online it could be an indicator of a miscarriage but she said that because I felt fine she won't give me a scan."
Evans and her partner Brad Fentln, 22, discovered they had lost their baby after paying for the private scan. "I had to pay to find this out which I think is horrible," she said. "If I had been allowed a scan before this at eight weeks it would have reduced my risk of infection."
The private doctors forwarded Evans's details to her local hospital, who assured her she would receive a call within 24 hours, yet Evans maintains that call never arrived.
Emergency department visit
On August 4, her situation deteriorated significantly as Evans began feeling unwell, the pain worsened, and she made her way to accident and emergency. "I went to the emergency department after ringing the doctors and they told me that I was having a miscarriage but they said it will happen on its own," she said.
"They told me I couldn't have any painkillers and it would be like a heavy period. Then two days later I started having contractions which they didn't warn me about. When I felt all the pain and saw the blood I knew something was wrong and I was just neglected."
Evans claims her miscarriage lasted approximately two weeks, during which she lost consciousness on two separate occasions. She told her story to Talk to the Press.
Fear of future pregnancy
"I passed out twice at one point and my boyfriend called the ambulance, but they said it was not an emergency. I was sweating and I was shivering, I thought I had an infection," Evans said. "I was bleeding a lot and I thought I was dying and I kept screaming out in pain."
"The pain and everything lasted around two weeks. Now it is still there but I feel numb to it all now and I feel like I can't trust the hospital. It was my first pregnancy and I was scared. The hospital basically told me to get over it and sleep it off but the pain was traumatic physically and mentally. I had to go about my day to day life in a lot of pain."
Since the ordeal, Evans said she remains fearful about falling pregnant again in the future. "Since then it has all been a bit of a shock and now I am so scared to get pregnant in the future," she said.
