Abstract

Intra Uterine Fetal Demise is Very Traumatic to mother and the family also. In most of the cases it is preventable by proper antenatal care and counselling. Antepartum fetal death after period of viability and weighing more than 500 gm is termed as IUFD. In Recent times the incidence of IUFD is decreasing gradually this id because of prenatal diagnosis antenatal care good intra natal monitoring sources and all babies with congenital anomalies are being diagnosed and terminating by time. According to confidential Perinatal Mortality Surveillance Report (CEMACH)1 stillbirth baby defined as ‘a baby delivered with no signs of life and died after 24 completed weeks of pregnancy’. According to ICD 10 definition death of foetus after 20 weeks of gestation, but a foetus greater than any combination of 16, 20, 22, 24 and 28 week of gestational age and 350gm , 400gm, 500gm or 1000 gm birth weight considered as stillborn depending on local law. And according to WHO the gestational age is 28 completed weeks (late stillbirth). India Along with 10 other countries contributes to two third cases of IUFD.

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