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stillbirth [′stil‚bərth]

(medicine)

Birth of a dead infant.

Stillbirth

the birth of a dead fetus after 28 weeks of pregnancy; the fetus does not breathe after birth. Such a fetus is no less than 35 cm long and weighs no less than 1,000 g. As a statistical index, stillbirth is the ratio of the number of stillbirths to 1,000 births. Smaller fetuses of lower weight are late abortions.

There are several types of stillbirth: prenatal stillbirth, when the death of the fetus occurs before the onset of labor (after 28 weeks of pregnancy); intranatal stillbirth, when the fetus dies during birth; and postnatal stillbirth, when the fetus is born with a heartbeat, but extrauterine respiration is not established.

Stillbirth is most often observed in women who suffer from chronic infections (brucellosis, toxoplasmosis, listerellosis, tuberculosis, syphilis) and in women who had acute infections during pregnancy (angina, influenza, pneumonia). Stillbirth may result from toxemia of pregnancy, cardiovascular disease, or Rh incompatibility. Stillbirth may also result from abnormalities in fetal development, as well as from placental presentation, premature detachment of the placenta, birth complications accompanied by uterine inertia, premature bursting of the amniotic membrane, or transverse or breech presentation of the fetus. Other causes of stillbirth may be the delivery of an unusually large fetus (5,000 g or more), a narrow pelvis in the mother, improper insertion of the head of the fetus, presentation and prolapse of the umbilical cord, or coiling of the umbilical cord around the neck and trunk of the fetus.

The prevention of stillbirths is ensured by systematic care of pregnant women, by timely diagnosis and treatment of diseases of pregnancy and complicated birth, and by strict observance of the measures for protection of the mother’s health, that is, by observing all aspects of prenatal care.

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Persianinov, L. S. “O probleme asfiksii ploda i novorozhdennogo.” In AntenataVnaia okhrana ploda. Moscow, 1968.
Petrov-Maslakov, M. A., and I. I. Klimets. PerinataVnaia smertnost’ Leningrad, 1965.

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Despite claims from the Department of Health that there had been an increase in midwives and consultant obstetricians, a report from the Confidential Enquiry into Stillbirths and Deaths in Infancy, claims nearly half of all unexplained stillbirths might have been avoided with better antenatal care.

Lawyer's plea on baby death by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)

The findings, published in the BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, concluded that, contrary to findings of other recent research, the level of the mother's obesity, not a previous Caesarean section, may be a factor in stillbirths.

Impact of Caesarean sections on stillbirths researched by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)

In all, 8,240 stillbirths occurred during the study period, most of them (86%) to normal-weight women.

The more obese a woman is, the greater her risk of having a stillbirth by Hollander, D. / Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health

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