Recent Examples on the WebWhile healthy people may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, listeria infections can also cause miscarriages and stillbirths in pregnant women.—Kate Gibson, CBS News, 21 Nov. 2023 The mother survives the shooting and her child’s stillbirth.—Qanta A. Ahmed, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023 Research shows as many as 1 in 4 stillbirths may be preventable.—Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 13 Oct. 2023 When a person is pregnant with multiples, an earlier delivery date decreases the risk of stillbirth or other complications.—Nicole Harris, Parents, 10 Oct. 2023 Women living near the mines have experienced stillbirths and miscarriages at abhorrent rates and their children carry the physical legacy of the Cold War through developmental delays, chromosomal aberrations, and other birth defects.—Time, 21 July 2023 Black women also are more than two times as likely to have a stillbirth as white women.—Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 7 Oct. 2023 Kim and other lawmakers lauded ProPublica’s reporting for bringing the stillbirth crisis to the forefront and revealing shortcomings in how the nation’s health care system was combating stillbirths.—Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 28 July 2023 The term is used to describe a child who is born or adopted into a family that has previously experienced a miscarriage, stillbirth, or other type of neonatal death.—Melissa Willets, Parents, 2 Oct. 2023 See More
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