Mgm, you are right. I think that in reality, alot of miscarriages are missed miscarriages but it is only because we have the opportunity to have more early ultrasound, are they being picked up and labelled as "missed" as opposed to a miscarriage. I know when I was pg with dd 6 years ago, they did not do ultrasounds in the antenatal clinics so I had no opportunity to have a u/s unil 12 weeks whereas a year ago, I went for my first antenatal visit at 10 weeks to a public hospital and the doctor got the ultrasound machine and there was no heartbeat and baby had probably died 10 days before. Had I not had that u/s I may have miscarried a week later and it would have been a miscarriage (as opposed to a missed miscarriage)_ Hope that made sense.