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Re: Pregnancy Loss question ..Dr Shanahan one additional ?
From: anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat, 26 Aug 2000 09:11:20 -0500 (CDT)
Would that be 20 weeks by gestational dates or by weeks of pregnancy?
At Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Kelly Shanahan, MD wrote:
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>At Fri, 25 Aug 2000, anonymous wrote:
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>>What weeks of pregnancy determine whether a loss is a miscarriage and
>>neonatal death, is there a cut off week? I have read conflicting
>>information. Somewhere I saw it printed that before 20 weeks is called
>>a miscarriage and anything over 21 is considered a neonatal death. What
>>is correct?
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>< 20 weeks = miscarriage.
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>Also why in some states is there no birth certificates given
>>for a stillborn birth. It is still a birth of a human being right?
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>I have no idea why some states do things one way and others do them
>differently. Birth certificates are often given only for live births,
>not stillborns. A difeerent certificate is sometimes given for a
>stillbirth
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>--
>M. Kelly Shanahan, MD, FACOG
>South Lake Tahoe, CA
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