I picked up on this. They hadn't announced the pregnancy and said it was a miscarriage and not a stillbirth - often with miscarriages your fetus isn't anything recognisable. I know I didn't identify a baby through the many clots I was losing. In fact I (and all other women I know aside from stillbirths) never even went to hospital.

It would have to had been pretty far along to identify I would think. Because even at twelve weeks a fetus is only about 5cm.

My Mum and dear friends who've had stillbirths have had the fetus taken away to be tested for abnormalities etc. Mum buried my sister in the cemetary and my two friends had their infants cremated (these were all between 19-21 weeks so a stillbirth rather than miscarriage)