A seemingly arbitrary rule is preventing women in the UK from accessing specialist care until they’ve had three miscarriages. Campaigners want to change this, Elisabeth Mahase reports. When Lisa Varey, 34, experienced her first miscarriage just after getting married, she sat in the hospital waiting room desperately searching on her phone for answers. “ We went from this high of highs to the depths of the lowest low and didn’t really have time to catch our breath.