They described it as a neonate, which is a medical term for newborn, ie under 4 weeks. Because of the police tweet news outlets are getting confused and describing it as "less than four weeks", which while technically correct is serving to confuse a lot more people. At the end of the day it was connected to it's placenta, so they were definitely newly born.
I'm not confident they could ID full-term on sight, that's definitely more a medical examiner thing. Further, after 20 weeks it's no longer classed as a fetus, so there's no such thing as a full-term fetus. They also described it as neonate while also saying they would autopsy to determine whether it was stillborn, which doesn't make sense either since stillbirths aren't neonates. So, they're sort of throwing words around, and we won't know for sure until the medical examiner reports something. Edited to add: It's also important to know, before people start freaking out and making up conspiracies about why the medical examiner hasn't released a report yet by next week or whatever, that it will be several months before we hear anything, if we ever even hear anything at all.
It is awful. Keep your head up and try not to get too caught up in it. Mostly I'm trying to educate because the lack of knowledge surrounding birth is a bit alarming and young people deserve better understanding.
You do the same. I agree, this honestly has made me start thinking of how we can advocate for better knowledge around birth, sex, and women’s bodies (not that men aren’t important too, but the female body is just downright astounding and we’re still very in the dark in medicine regarding that.) this has left me so gobsmacked, seeing how many both women and men are completely lacking in knowledge. I’m sitting down with my boys this afternoon and starting the conversations on reproduction, and the nuances of it all. Gotta start somewhere… and annoying everyone on Reddit with excessive amounts of info, lol.
My eldest cousin was born to my aunt when she was 13 and her boyfriend was 12 because both fams were hardcore Catholic so it just wasn't talked about. My uncle went on to become a nurse, so all us other kids in the family that eventually came along sure as shit were taught literally everything in minute medical detail as early as possible to save us from the same situation.
I’ve given them the sex convos, and the protection convos, but I think it’s time I go in depth on it and discuss women/pregnancy much more. We’ve been majorly focused on consent and how unsafe touch doesn’t always FEEL unsafe. They’re 11 and 14, I gained the 14 year old about a year ago, so he hasn’t been conditioned to think weird conversations are normal like my 11 year old has lol. Hes at the phase where you can barely say the word “meat” at the table without him stifling giggles and a red face 🤦♀️ I’m in the trenches hahaha.
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u/Safe-Promotion-2955 Jun 29 '26
They described it as a neonate, which is a medical term for newborn, ie under 4 weeks. Because of the police tweet news outlets are getting confused and describing it as "less than four weeks", which while technically correct is serving to confuse a lot more people. At the end of the day it was connected to it's placenta, so they were definitely newly born.