WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for October, 2000: Re: Aborthion or stillbirth???

Re: Aborthion or stillbirth???

From: Robin (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 9 Oct 2000 14:55:17 -0500 (CDT)

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At Mon, 9 Oct 2000, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote: >
>There is a woman who lost husband recently.
>She found out she was pregnant after his death.
>She already had a four year old girl
>and this was her second pregnancy.
>
>Her first pregnancy wasn't easy(she felt
>quite sick before and after the birth) but
>there was no serious medical complications.
>
>Now, in her seventh month of her pregnancy she
>went to a hospital. As far as I could tell it wasn't
>the case of emergency. When she came back, she told
>everybody she had a stillbirth.
>
>My question is that is there any chance of she had an
>abortion? How possible is that she had a stillbirth
>due to the shock and the stress of her husband's death
>in her seventh month of pregnancy?

I would think a third trimester abortion is illegal, but I could be wrong. It is very possible to have a stillbirth at seven months. My Grandmother had one at nine months!!! The baby died one week before her due date. So, it is possible.

I personally feel this is a deeply personal matter. This woman has been through hell and back, and deserves whatever privacy she can get. I don't think any of us can judge what is or isn't an emergency (except a Dr. of course). In my Grandmothers case, she had no idea whatsoever. She didn't even know the baby died until she went in to the Dr. the following week!

In fact, with my Grandmother, her brother was critically injured a few months before she had conceived, in a hold up in the pharmacy he owned. She was definitely stressed out.

-- Robin (who has no business being on the computer during the Holiday, Yom Kippur.....I'm going now)

-- ~Robin~

I'm not a Dr. or any type of Medical Professional. The information I share is based on what I have experienced personally or what I have learned.

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