To see or not to see: should parents hold their stillborn? Around one in 200 babies in the UK are stillborn. But what is the impact on parents allowed to see and hold their baby? Senior research fellow Penelope Turton outlines this contentious ...
What do hospitals do with stillborn babies? It alldepends on the parents. Some can choose to take the baby home and plana funeral, and some can allow the hospital to arrange the funeral. Legally, the baby should be cremated or buried if the baby is stillborn at twenty-four weeks or mor...
Evidence for many other agents is that minimal or asymptomatic infections also occur, so improved markers of adverse outcomes are needed. The role of other viruses and difficult-to-culture organisms in stillbirth is uncertain, and needs more research. However, testing stillborn babies for some ...
after it was revealed that researchers obtained scientific data by snatching bodies. Beginning in 1953,Project Sunshinecollected bone sample from cadavers, including those of stillborn babies.
human cloning should be banned for now. The main worry is the high risk of producing deformed or stillborn babies (This Week, 17 January, p 4). Experts disagree on what should happen in the longe...
To the Hebrew mind, even if a man could live to be 200 years old and have 100 children, without a proper burial he would better have been stillborn (Ecclesiastes 6:3-6). Like Jezebel, these corpses are left unburied; they are "loathsome" to all who see them (2 Kings 9:10). To...
I delivered my first son stillborn in March of this year. When he was born they saw that was a blood clot in the cord. It was so close to his stomach that I chose to have an autopsy done because I knew there was no way that the clot had come from my placenta. The autopsy reveal...
Big babies are at higher risk for other birth problems. We can accurately tell if a baby will be big. Induction keeps the baby from getting any bigger, which lowers the risk of Cesarean. Elective Cesareans for big baby are only beneficial; that is, they don’t have major risks that coul...
Caesarean section, also known as C-section, or caesarean delivery, isthe surgical procedure by which one or more babies are delivered through an incision in the mother's abdomen, often performed because vaginal delivery would put the baby or mother at risk. ...
Information about parity (defined asthe number of times that a woman had given birth to a fetus with a gestational age of 24 weeks or more, regardless of whether the child was born alive or was stillborn) was obtained by questionnaire at enrollment. ...