Research & Best Practices

In 2010 the U.S. became the only industrialized country that adopted the 39-week rule limit "elective" delivery, via labor induction or cesarean delivery, before 39 weeks 0 days of gestation. Some researchers linked this rule to the increase of term stillbirth rates in the U.S. 

A must-read report on why the failure of data collection in the U.S. undermines our efforts to stillbirth prevention.  The report also clarifies some popular misunderstanding on performing autopsy on stillborn babies. 

A proRepublica report found that the U.S. was worse than 151 countries in reducing its stillbirth rate between 2000 and 2021, cutting it by just 0.9%. Meanwhile, Australia has made remarkable improvement in lowering its stillbirth rates. How did it do it?