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A baby's death before or during birth, leaving parents with grief instead of the child they expected.
means The death of a baby in the womb before or during delivery, after a point in pregnancy when it was expected to survive.
from A straightforward compound from Old English and Old Norse-rooted words: 'still' here means motionless or without life (the same sense found in 'stand still' pushed to its starkest extreme), joined to 'birth.' The term emerged in English by the medieval period as a plain, clinical label — unlike many old words, it carries no hidden pun or borrowed myth, just two ordinary words forced together to name an extraordinary grief.
- definition
- fetal death at or after 20 weeks gestation
- common myth
- rarely caused by anything the mother did
- scale
- roughly 1 in 175 pregnancies in the US
- grief note
- parents still get a birth certificate, not a reason