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Centrelink miscarriage rule ‘tone-deaf’ to the reality of grief, mourning family says
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Patty Van Duijn had started to feel her unborn baby kicking, and she and her partner Lee Simpson had already bought a cot. The pair even moved into a larger home to accommodate their new lives as parents. So when the 29-year-old Adelaide woman’s water broke at 19-weeks gestation, and she gave birth to her breathless baby Mason last week, the devastation she experienced was earth-shattering.

While Australia does not have accurate miscarriage data, it is believed that of the 100,000 to 150,000 families that experience miscarriages in Australia each year, up to 3000 of those experience later miscarriages. For Van Duijn, the pain is compounded because she experienced a stillbirth at 21 weeks gestation in 2023, “exactly the same way I lost this one,” she said. “I didn’t think it was going to happen again.” Her water had broken, but she didn’t realise.

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