Submitted on Tuesday 6th February 2018
Rejected on Monday 26th February 2018
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Adopt Terminology pre-term Labour for babies born post 16 weeks, not miscarriage
Speaking from experience, I believe the terminology "Miscarriage" should only be adopted for pregnancies lost prior to 16 weeks gestation.
Miscarriage means "loss or expulsion of an embryo before it's viable".
My Husband and I have unfortunately lost two babies. Our first was born 20/09/2016 at 19 weeks; fully formed and born with a heartbeat & lived for a few minutes. Our second child was born 08/08/2017 at 21 weeks and lived for 16 minutes.
I endured hours of labour, the same as any other mother who has delivered a baby. I find it offensive and an insult that my children are labelled as miscarriage- like they didn't exist, when they were born alive, although premature
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We’re very sorry for your losses.
We can’t accept your petition because the language used in hospitals to describe the loss of pre-term babies is not the responsibility of the UK Government and Parliament.
We have a petition to “Lower the age a stillborn can legally be registered.” which you might be interested in signing:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/212105
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