Counting Our Losses: Born Still but Stillborn

How many stillborn babies die in the United States annually?

There is no set protocol, no national standards and we are not counting babies. The best we have are guesses. I kept seeing "one in every hundred births" and sometimes I read "26,000 babies a year". Just speculation.

"My eyes start to open and I am blinded by white light. I see a faint outline of several people standing around me and I try to speak. My words are like the lopsided drawings my four year old often gifts me. My speech is at first indecipherable and I try again and again until finally I am able to pierce two words together as a question, "My son?" My eyes search the faces of the nurses and I am struck with the icy realization that nobody in the room will make eye contact with me."

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