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live birth

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noun

  1. the birth of a living child Compare stillbirth

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The American Society for Reproductive Medicine, a professional group, defines “futility” in fertility treatment as having less than a 1% chance of a woman having a live birth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

It is believed to be longest that an embryo has been frozen before resulting in a successful live birth.

From BBC • Jul. 31, 2025

"This study was designed to address those gaps by tracking pregnancy and live birth rates among a group of breast cancer survivors and patients who indicated they'd attempted to conceive following their cancer diagnosis."

From Science Daily • May 23, 2024

Multiple embryos are often transferred during each cycle in the hopes that at least one will result in a live birth.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2024

She testified that her conclusion of a live birth was a "diagnosis of exclusion"—that is, she could not find evidence that the baby was stillborn and did not have another explanation for his death.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

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