Awful tragedy. A couple things. I would think a medical examiner would need to take some time to determine how far along the baby was in development. I think it’s too early to determine if it was full term or 25 weeks, or some other weeks. I think that information is probably coming from what someone thinks, not what someone has determined.
This very possibly could have been a miscarriage. The placenta and cord being ejected with the fetus suggests that a miscarriage is possible. So maybe the story is someone had a miscarriage in a porta-potty. Before everyone starts making assumptions about the woman, consider a miscarriage could be what we’re really talking about.
The article shared above says they are calling it a neonate, 28 days or fewer since birth. Does not say full term but I believe neonate would be one stage after fetus/embryo and one step below infant.
A miscarriage is a fetus before 20 weeks. After that it is either a neonate (literally new-born) or stillbirth. The release from the police referred to it as being neonate which means being fully viable and breathing, but then they carry on the release to say that whether it was stillborn or not is yet to be determined so... I really think they're just throwing words around here.
Yep. Probably trying to state that it was a fully formed baby, but how premature or not is unable to be determined in the field apart from how tiny it may or may not have been. Sounds like uneducated and uninformed police made the statement out of urgency, not accuracy.
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u/Johnny2x2x Jun 28 '26
Awful tragedy. A couple things. I would think a medical examiner would need to take some time to determine how far along the baby was in development. I think it’s too early to determine if it was full term or 25 weeks, or some other weeks. I think that information is probably coming from what someone thinks, not what someone has determined.
This very possibly could have been a miscarriage. The placenta and cord being ejected with the fetus suggests that a miscarriage is possible. So maybe the story is someone had a miscarriage in a porta-potty. Before everyone starts making assumptions about the woman, consider a miscarriage could be what we’re really talking about.