What you need to know about stillbirths
If you don't already know still birth is death or loss of a baby before or during delivery. It may sound familiar to you, like a miscarriage. Yes, both miscarriage and stillbirth are described as pregnancy loss. But they are different in terms of when the pregnancy loss was taken. It has stated from the Centers for disease control and prevention that in the United States, a miscarriage is usually defined as loss of a baby before the 20th week of pregnancy, and a stillbirth is loss of a baby after 20 weeks of pregnancy. This is very tragic. As UNICEF has mentioned, one stillbirth happens every 16 seconds. That’s about 2 million babies stillborn every year. Imagine women having to mentally and physically prepare themselves for getting or doing everything they have to for this baby. Especially during childbirth. For instance as mentioned from UNICEF. A woman in Sierra Leone gave birth to a stillborn baby at home for 10 hours of labor. She was brought to the hospital for emerg...