If a baby is born prematurely and stillborn, at what term of the pregnancy is a death certificate required?

Question

If a baby is born prematurely and stillborn, at what term of the pregnancy is a death certificate required?

Answer 1

after 5 months

Answer 2

Usually i believe it is if a baby is born after 22 weeks then a death certificate is issued but they may do it even earlier in some places.  

Answer 3

it depends on where the baby is born, different states have different laws

most of the time it only applies if it was a viable pregnancy (20 weeks)

Answer 4

This is a sad question, but after 5 months it is considered a delivery and no longer a miscarriage

Answer 5

if a baby is still born the hospital will call it a fetal demise and if you give you baby a name they will do paper work and things just out of respect to you and your family but there will be no death certificate the baby have to be born alive then die to get a death cert. they will let you have all the time you need to be with your baby again out of respect of you and your family that is if you want to see your baby i can tell you it isn't a easy thing i have been through it myself and by working there i had to gone through it with other people

the baby will have to take the first breathe of air it get a birth our death cert.  

Answer 6

In the US, no certificate is issued for a stillborn, in most states. This may be changing soon as many people are challenging this law.  The reason is because a birth cert is not given to a stillborn baby therfore a death cert can not be issued

In the United Kingdom, you get a stillborn certificate which takes the place of both a birth and death cert.

EDIT:

Ok - well, this shows the inaccuratecy of Wikipedia.. I was wrong.  The majority of states require the fetus to be more than 20 weeks but two states dont require death certs for stillborns.  Sorry, i gave you the wrong info.  I always try to backup my info but in this case - I used the wrong refernce source