ABSTRACT
In Australia, a stillbirth is classified as a fetal death prior to the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception of ≥ 20 weeks’ gestation or ≥ 400 g birth weight; the death is indicated by the fact that after such separation the fetus does not breathe or show any other evidence of life, such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord or definite movement of voluntary muscles. A neonatal death is the death of a live-born infant within 28 days of birth. A perinatal death is a stillbirth or neonatal death.
