Black women experience the highest rates of stillbirth in subsequent pregnancies

White women with previous infant death were nearly twice as likely to experience subsequent stillbirth, compared to white women with prior infant survival. Black women with previous infant death were more than four times as likely to experience subsequent stillbirth, compared to black women with prior infant survival. The risk of stillbirth among women with and without a history of infant death, neonatal death, and post-neonatal death by race was also reviewed and the researchers found that black women had the highest rates of stillbirth in subsequent pregnancy. Looking specifically at neonatal death, black women were more than nine times as likely to experience stillbirth as white women. Women with infant death in the first pregnancy are more likely to be black, obese, and smoke during pregnancy.