[MD Expat in PA]

she could have spent what time she had left enjoying her pregnancy

I understand what you are saying overall but I find it difficult to believe a woman could “enjoy” a pregnancy in such a situation.

How can a woman “enjoy” a pregnancy knowing that at any minute her baby may die in the womb or die withing minutes, hours or days after birth? I do not know as I was not able to get pregnant despite desperately wanting to have children and having undergone many tests and infertility treatments.

And I would also mention that a baby dying in the womb is not without risks to the mother as fetal death does not always result in a “spontaneous abortion”, i.e. a miscarriage and at her age and history of miscarriage, her pregnancy was already “high risk”.

[Little Pig]

My wife still felt a bond with our son, even though she had so little time, because she could still feel him moving (barely), and knew he was in there. And in our case, the death did not result in spontaneous abortion; my wife had to use an abortifacient, but not until after our son died. But she still cherishes that time she had.