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Live birth Wikipedia

A live birth of a human being occurs when a fetus is expelled and separated from the mother's body and subsequently shows some sign of life, such as voluntary movement, heartbeat, or pulsation of the umbilical cord, but for however brief thistime. In the absence of such sign, the event is considered a stillbirth. This definition was created by the World Health Organization in 1950 and is chiefly used for public health and statistics|statistical purposes. Whether the childbirth|birth is vaginal or by Caesarean section, and whether the baby is ultimately viable, is not relevant to this statistical definition.

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Last Modified:   2005-12-23