When a fetus dies before birth, the mother's expectations of joy and excitement about her baby are brutally replaced by grief and loss. Nursing care after a stillbirth may well influence how the ...
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Understanding and recovering from a stillbirth
When a baby dies in utero at 20 weeks of pregnancy or later, it's called a stillbirth. (When pregnancy loss happens before 20 weeks, it's called a miscarriage.) Approximately 1 in 160 pregnancies end ...
In the majority of cases, the cause of stillbirth remains unknown despite detailed clinical and laboratory evaluation. Approximately 10 to 20% of stillbirths are attributed to chromosomal ...
When reality TV star Michelle Duggar announced last week that she’d learned at 19½ weeks that her baby-to-be no longer had a heartbeat, the very personal topic of miscarriage took a turn in the media ...
On a recent trip abroad, I meandered through a cemetery reading gravestones. Some were old and faded and some very recent and fresh. It is always interesting to me to observe how mourners memorialize ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A large study that followed women through their first and second consecutive pregnancy provides additional evidence of a direct link between smoking and increased risk of ...
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