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Laura Percival with her son Luka. A traumatised mum who suffered a miscarriage was forced to alone wait inside a maternity ward where she could see mums having contractions and newborn babies. See NATIONAL story NNBABY; Laura Percival had gone into hospital for a 12-week scan when doctors told her the devastating news that the child’s heart had stopped beating. But the 27-year-old single mum was forced to wait hours for surgery after a pessary – a device inserted into the vagina to support the uterus – failed. She said the experience was “the hardest thing she has had to go through” after a porter wheeled her through a new-born baby ward.