i remember getting this birth announcement and it was saying about how their child was born and was beautiful, name etc and then said that she was born and passed on the date. it was so incredibly sad.

I hope they can prevent this happening as frequently. It would be heartbreaking

This is sad. I had a still born baby over 20 years ago. The explanation at the time was the cord was wrapped around her neck twice and she was really small. It was only 5 years agowhile an infertility specialist did multiple test on me, it was discovered that there was something to do with antinuclear antibodies meant that the the baby wouldn’t have been getting enough nutrients and blood from the placenta. So when I finally got pregnant 4 years ago, I had to take half an asprin throughout the pregnancy and have regular ultrasounds and feotal heart monitoring. Which resulted in a successful pregancy. Thank goodness as I don’t think I could have coped if I had another still born .

It is scary to think that in a developed nation such as Australia there are still such huge gaps in healthcare that, given the better performance of other developed nations, must be something that we should be able to improve.

If you live in a country town where there is nobody qualified to give aenastheic consider arranging accomodation near a hosptital where there is. I know of one stillborn case. Had the Mum been in a country town or city which had an aenethatist and the Dr. could have done a C-section there is a chance the baby may have survived. They suspected the cord may be around the baby’s neck but she was still moving about during the early stages of labour. They reckoned the cord was long enough for them to at least loosen it then unwind it as much as possible before “pulling the baby out”. As it was she endured several hours in labour to deliver a baby the Dad knew was already dead about 3 hours before the birth. Her 2nd baby she stayed with family in a metro area from 6 weeks before the birth. The Dad took holidays a week before the baby was due.

I hope they will be able to lower the numbers. It must be such a tragic experience.

Hopefully they will look into this sooner rather than later. I have a very close friend who has experienced a stillbirth and seeing what she went through just broke my heart. The hospital mismanaged her case but it can’t be proved.

Still birth is so very harrowing for those who experience it. Anything that can be done to reduce the rate is a good thing.