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This is going to sound like a terrible question, but it's one that I have been wondering about for years.
In the tragic case when a baby dies, at what point of gestation is the hospital required to send the body to the funeral home versus "taking care of it" at the hospital. Is there a requirement at all?
I took a Death and Dying class many years ago when I was in college, and when we toured a funeral home, I asked the funeral director this, and unfortunately, it wasn't my day, because he and his wife lost an infant just a few months before. (I wanted to crawl under a rock). So my question never got answered.
The only thing that I did learn is that he said they don't recommend embalming for an infant b/c it has a tendency to turn the skin grey.
BSNtobe2009
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No it's not, and it's one of the saddest parts of life.
Thanks again for everyone's responses.