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A stillbirth occurs when a fetus has died in the uterus. A wide variety of definitions exist. Once the fetus has died, the mother may or may not have contractions and undergo childbirth. The term is often used in distinction to live birth or miscarriage and the word miscarriage is oftentimes used incorrectly to describe stillbirths. Most stillbirths occur in full-term pregnancies.
The causes of a large percentage of human stillbirths remain unknown, even in cases where extensive testing and autopsy have been performed. A rarely used term to describe these is sudden antenatal death syndrome or SADS, a phrase coined by Cacciatore & Collins in 2000.
In cases where the cause is known, some possibilities of the cause of death are:
Sometimes a pregnancy is terminated deliberately during a late phase, for example for congenital anomaly. UK law requires these procedures to be registered as "stillbirths".
In A Dark Night You Were Born
In A Dark Place You Were Torn
Out Of A Mother Without Sin
The Points Were Set You Couldn't Win
They Tried To Save You Out Of Her Womb
It Will Mean Your Grave And Your Tomb
You Leave This Earth Before You Know
To God's Arbitrariness You Have To Bow
Condemned To Suffer And Die In The Dark
There's No Paradise That Is Worth To Remark
There's No Paradise
With High Hopes She Tried To Give Eternal Life
But Now The Little Worm Is Dead Without A Life
Don't Be Sad This Is The Way
That All Creatures Have To Go On Their Last Day
To God's Arbitrariness You Have To Bow
With No Consciousness Nothing To Know
Will We Ever Meet Again Will We Suffer Endlessly
We Are Lost In Universe We Are Lost Eternally