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No recognition for babies born before 24 weeks.

  • 03-11-2017 12:57pm
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    irishman_abroad
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    Hi All,

    We have recently gone through a terrible experience of losing our unborn son and because he did not match the definition of a stillbirth (A stillborn baby is a baby who is born dead after 24 completed weeks of pregnancy and weighs less than 500g) he was not recognised by the state.

    This means in the state's eyes he did not exist and should future generations try to look him up would find nothing.

    The reason I am posting here is to try and find out if anyone knows of any other countries around the world that do recognise babies in this situation. I know NSW in Australia have a form of recognition of early pregnancy loss:
    http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/Pages/births/stillbirths.aspx

    And have heard that Poland officially recognise babies from the time a sex can be ascertained.

    If anyone has any information that they think would help please let me know either by posting here or if you prefer by PM.

    What myself and my wife are trying to do is put a proposal together to present to the government to try and get a new recognition for these babies that were born too soon. We don't want the current laws changed as this seems to be an impossibility but rather have a new "Certificate of Life" brought in so that there will be at the very least, a recognition from the state.

    I have attached a 1 page document with a basic outline of what we want and again any suggestions welcomed.

    If anyone else has had a similar situation we found a lot of help from www.feileacain.ie.


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