Still Birth Symptoms and Reasons

Ababy who is dead at its birth is referred to as still born baby or the birth process is known as the stillbirth.The baby might have died during the pregnancy that is called as inter- uterine death or IUD; it might die when the mother is in labour or even during the birth process.

The symptoms of still birth

The first and foremost symptom is that the baby stops moving inside the uterus. The mother needs to do kick counting after about five months of pregnancy; the baby needs to move at least ten times a day, anything less than that may indicate that something wrong might have happened.Some other important symptoms that can be related to stillbirth are the vaginal bleeding and abdominal contraction or premature labour. If any of the symptoms is noticed, the mother needs to be rushed to a hospital where she will undergo an ultrasound that will detect the exact reason behind all these signs.

What happens when a stillbirth incident is detected before birth?

When it is detected that the baby had died in the uterus, the doctors will induce labour pain in order to bring out the baby from the mother’s womb. If the condition of the mother is serious,a surgery may also be done to detach the dead baby from its mother. Some parents may like to have natural labour pain while some want to do it in an artificial way. However, this depends upon the health of the expectant mother. It is always advice to remove the dead foetus from inside the mother’s body as soon as possible as it may encourage septicemia in the mother and can even prove fatal for the mother as well.

What if the baby dies during birth?

This situation is absolutely traumatic for any parent on this earth, who waits eagerly for thirty four long weeks to welcome the newest member of their family and then suddenly receives the news about the stillbirth that happened when the mother was delivering her baby. Such cases generally arise when some problems arise in the placenta or the umbilical cord that prevent the flow of oxygen from reaching the baby.This might happen during the immense pressure that both the mother and her baby undergo during the delivery.There are cases where the baby has been strangulated by the umbilical cord during the delivery resulting in stillbirth.

Is the mother allowed to see the baby after a still birth?

That totally depends upon the circumstances regarding the childbirth and the policies of the hospital or the nursing home where the incident of the stillbirth happened. If the baby die very prematurely then some times the doctors may not allow the parents to have look at their dead baby as the vision may be too devastating for them to handle. In such cases they might hear about the baby from the doctors or the midwife. It is always better to cherish good memories and forget the grieving ones.