The Queensland premier’s emotional confession came during questioning about allegations a woman was traumatised by the hospital treatment she received after a painful miscarriage.

“I have also had a miscarriage,” Palaszczuk told Nine’s Today.

“I do know exactly what it’s like.

“It is horrific and stays with you for the rest of your life.”

She said she was at her home the day she lost her own child.

“I had it in my house,” Palaszczuk said.

“I went to work – I was completely in shock.

“This was many, many years ago of course, before I was a politician, but I know the trauma that women go through.

“It is heartbreaking, it is very hurtful and you’re in shock, and you don’t know what to do.”

The personal revelation comes after the state government ordered a full internal review of the Ipswich Hospital.

Nikkole Southwell, who was 12 weeks’ pregnant when she lost her child in April, this week claimed paramedics placed the fetus in a biohazard bag on the way to Ipswich Hospital.

The Fernvale woman said she had to sit in the hospital waiting room holding the bag with sheets around her waist.

“I do feel for the woman involved,” Palaszczuk said.

“I’m going to be personally involved with the minister to ensure that these things definitely do not happen again in our public hospitals.

“It’s not acceptable.

“I don’t think it’s right and the health minister is convening … an urgent round-table to discuss these very important issues.”

Southwell also said she was treated on a hospital bed smeared with another patient’s blood.

She alleged hospital staff used her partner’s phone torch rather than the appropriate medical equipment during an examination before she was discharged.

“I lost my baby and my dignity was taken,” she told the Courier Mail.

“I felt like my baby meant nothing while it sat in the top of my handbag in a biohazard bag for all to see.”

Miscarriages occur in at least 15 per cent of confirmed pregnancies, according to Miscarriage Australia.

“The actual miscarriage rate is likely to be much higher – we estimate it to be around one in four pregnancies,” its research states.

“Based on these rates and the number of births each year, we estimate around 285 miscarriages occur every day in Australia.”

Palaszczuk said it was a traumatic issue women face every day.

“It’s a traumatic time … and we don’t talk about it,” she said.

“So I think there are conversations that need to happen, but also the health care system needs to respond because so many times we focus on the woman having the baby and not the person who’s lost the baby.”

Senior clinicians will lead the internal review, which is expected to take at least 30 days before the recommendations are publicly released.