Definition of stillbirth
: the birth of a dead fetus
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Victoria was supposed to be Samantha Gadd’s rainbow baby — a child born after a miscarriage, stillbirth or the death of an infant.
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Instead of the tax credit, the bill passed Wednesday would provide a one-time tax exemption for a family who can provide a certificate of stillbirth from the state Department of Health and Human Services.
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Poor women who suffer late-term miscarriages or stillbirths have been convicted of aggravated or attempted homicide in trials that seem to push them all down the same hall of mirrors.
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Thousands of women have filed grievances with the US Food and Drug Administration about unintended pregnancies, miscarriages, stillbirths, severe pain and bleeding.
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If left untreated, gonorrhea can lead to pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirths, severe eye infections in babies and infertility in both men and women.
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Add that listeria can cause pregnant women can suffer miscarriages and stillbirths.
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In 2015, more than 5,000 women in the US reported to the FDA several problems related to Essure, including unintended pregnancies, stillbirths, debilitating pain, bleeding and perforation of their fallopian tubes, among other complications.
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The bacteria can be transmitted from a pregnant mother to her baby and has also resulted in stillbirths.
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First Known Use of stillbirth
1880
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