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A woman who has carried a child within her body for 9 months and then have the child die for one reason or the other should be allowed to have a birth certificate for that child if she so desires. She will be receiving a death certificate but the two pieces of paper are entirely different in the information required. Another child after the stillborn child, as he or she gets older, may have questions about older siblings and to have a birth certificate can help. It also documents that there was another child in the family who died and other siblings would know this instead of having it hidden away. When doing genealogy, you want to know how many children a family had and a stillborn child is just as important as any other child who lived. It might also help future generations who might have medical questions when the same thing happens to them.
