I was oncall on 5th October 2018. We have one patient with second trimester loss (means that the mother gave birth to a dead baby at early stage of her pregnancy). The baby might be few hundreds grams only and they are born dead.
The patient was only at her 18-20 weeks of pregnancy when she delivered the baby. One of my gazetting specialist came to the hospital for a medicolegal case examination and she got to know that the patient had already delivered the baby.
She asked me: "..., normally where did they put the fetus(baby) ya?"
Without thinking any further, I answered: "Likely in the yellow plastic bag".
I feel weird towards the question that she asked. However, I never think about that. For adults, when they passed away, we have the metal coffin-like place to put/transport the corpse temporarily, but how about the fetus(baby) which is only 300 grams?
So I went and found out that the corpse of the baby will be put into a proper box and will be transported to the mortuary. Not in the yellow plastic.
I updated the specialist via whatsapp.
She replied: Every baby is a gift.
Some baby might not make it to live in this world. Some might passed away early due to chromosomal or structural abnormalities. But, they are still a gift. Every baby is a gift and we should handle them well.
The patient was only at her 18-20 weeks of pregnancy when she delivered the baby. One of my gazetting specialist came to the hospital for a medicolegal case examination and she got to know that the patient had already delivered the baby.
She asked me: "..., normally where did they put the fetus(baby) ya?"
Without thinking any further, I answered: "Likely in the yellow plastic bag".
I feel weird towards the question that she asked. However, I never think about that. For adults, when they passed away, we have the metal coffin-like place to put/transport the corpse temporarily, but how about the fetus(baby) which is only 300 grams?
So I went and found out that the corpse of the baby will be put into a proper box and will be transported to the mortuary. Not in the yellow plastic.
I updated the specialist via whatsapp.
She replied: Every baby is a gift.
Some baby might not make it to live in this world. Some might passed away early due to chromosomal or structural abnormalities. But, they are still a gift. Every baby is a gift and we should handle them well.
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