jedmatters

Honestly: a 23 week baby would be treated as a fetal demise in our NICU.
Babies must reach 24 weeks 4 days before any attempt to save them is attempted, at least at our hospital.
Plus, the body is not released until the coroner signs the death certificate. The funeral home picks up the body: not the family.
But that is our state laws. The laws may be copmpletely different overseas.
The staff may have collected vitals as a standard policy, and did not notice a faint or unrecordable vital. Therefore, the baby was declared dead.
The refrigeration may have helped shrink the blood vessels and lungs just enough to start life signs. But we may never know that answer.