When a baby dies in utero at 20 weeks of pregnancy or later, it's called a stillbirth. (When pregnancy loss happens before 20 weeks, it's called a miscarriage.) Approximately 1 in 160 pregnancies ...

For those stillbirths that happened at 37 weeks or more, that proportion was even higher — and it’s rising, from 41% in 2019 to nearly 44% in 2021. Get Our Top Investigations. ...

More than 20,000 stillbirths occur in the U.S. each year, but 1 in 4 may be preventable. “Before a Breath” sheds light on three mothers fighting to change those statistics.