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the birth that arrives with no first cry, and grief with no rehearsal.
means the death of a baby in the womb after 20 weeks of pregnancy, before or during delivery.
from from old english still meaning motionless, paired with birth — the plainest possible name for the cruelest possible outcome, in use since the 1300s.
global tollabout 2 million stillbirths happen worldwide every year
often unexplainednearly a third have no identified cause
legal blind spotmany countries still deny birth certificates for stillborn babies
timing mattersmost occur before labor even begins, not during it