opting for a homebirth following diagnosis of intrauterine death

Not what you're looking for but I'm pretty sure I remember iolaus did a catch of the week where the fetes was not expected to live more than a few mins/hours after birth and they chose to have him at home and let him die at home with them there cuddling him after he was born. I may be wrong though.

I haven't heard anything as you say about stillbirth though

I'll have to have a look and see if I can find some of the old birth stories i've read about women in this sort of circumstance.
It sounds like a very emotive topic and something i'd be interested to learn more about so if you find anything that you're willing to share i'd like to read it.
I'll look for those websites after i've sorted out the kids tea x

The first two again are not what your looking for but here's a couple of home birth stories who's babies were stillborn/died and they talk about why being at home was still a positive experience for them

http://www.midwifery.org.uk/index.p...ome-&catid=84:magazine-spring-1999&Itemid=106

http://www.homebirth.org.uk/nickykim.htm

This one however is when they did know the baby had died and chose to have a home birth

http://www.gentlebirth.org/archives/stillbornKLR.html

I think the risks with DIC increase 2 weeks after fetal death

I did do a COTW where the baby was expected to die, I think she lived for about a week in the end

I've known people take home a stillborn baby after a hospital birth

how sad