Jodie Evans, 22, from Wolverhampton, has spoken of being left "scared to get pregnant in the future" after she claims a hospital refused to give her a scan during her miscarriage. The jewellery shop worker said she had to pay for a private scan to find out she was having a miscarriage, after doctors told her bleeding was normal and that she would have to wait five weeks for a scan.
Pregnancy symptoms disappeared overnight
Ms Evans found out she was five weeks pregnant with her first child on June 10, 2026, but started experiencing painful bleeding at the end of July, seven weeks into her pregnancy. She contacted doctors but claims they said there were no appointments until she was 12 and a half weeks pregnant and told her it would be ok to wait. She added that all her pregnancy symptoms had "gone overnight".
The 22-year-old booked a private scan at 10 weeks and was told the baby had no heartbeat and had died at six weeks and six days. She said: "The doctors told me a scan was unneeded. I kept getting declined so I booked a private one at 10 weeks to ease my brain."
Private scan revealed miscarriage
Ms Evans 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."
She shared her anger that she and her partner Brad, 22, found out about the miscarriage through a private scan, saying: "I had to pay to find this out which I think is horrible. If I had been allowed a scan before this at eight weeks it would have reduced my risk of infection."
Emergency department visit
The private doctors passed Ms Evans's details onto her local hospital, who said they would ring her within the next 24 hours, but she claims they never called. Her health took a turn for the worse on August 4 as she started to feel unwell and the pain intensified.
She said: "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. 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."
Two weeks of pain and collapse
Ms Evans claims her miscarriage lasted around two weeks and during that time she fell unconscious twice. She said: "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."
She added: "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 then it has all been a bit of a shock and now I am so scared to get pregnant in the future."
