Greetings all.

I realize that this forum is Aussie based, so I hope being a local American isn't shunned upon too much. In a nutshell, I found this site more encouraging and promising than the other related sites.
And let me apologize in advance for any possible grammar errors...it's past midnight and I can't sleep.

I'll attempt to explain, in short, the long-winded story.

Everything, for the most part, is normal with the pregnancy during the first 7.5 months. The only oddity was that the baby was in a breach position...and the doctors said that she might flip around when delivering time comes around. No real big deal to us, we just figured she was starting both her mother's and my stubborn attitude a little early!
Well, as time went by, our girl still hadn't flipped so the doctors were scheduling a C-Section. Still, though a small concern, we were fairly certain everything would work out on its own.
Two days after our last doctors visit, my wife starts having major contractions, and they are close together. Thinking it was the big day, we head to the hospital.
Soon enough, they hook my wife up to those contraction/heartbeat monitors and that's when the floor just dropped from under me.
They couldn't find the heartbeat with the little Doppler machine, they couldn't find any movement with the ultrasound. I requested three different doctors opinions, but they all found the same unfortunate results.
My wife was 8.5 months along with no problems. We even felt her move the night before. So somewhere between in the middle of the night and the morning portion of the day of giving birth, my daughter had passed away.
So being a stillborn, the doctors advised still having a vaginal birth rather than a C-Section, despite the baby's breach position.
So after a few painful hours of labor, my wife was able to give birth to our kid. Without a doubt, she was the most beautiful thing I've have ever laid eyes on. She was just amazing.
So we held her for a few hours, talked to her, wished her well, and told her that we would see her soon.

I guess my reasoning for writing is an obtuse form of comforting myself. I'm not really sure how anybody copes with such a loss...or are you?
How does one rationalize the odds of this happening with two perfectly healthy, drink free, drug free, smoke free, mostly stress free, happily married adults? It's never happened before in any of our family lines. It just shouldn't have happened.

And of course, the doctors haven't a clue on what might have happened.

Maybe I need to take my wife on a getaway vacation during our hiatus from work...I've always heard Australia is nice.

With my small and feeble attempt at humor aside, thanks for reading my note.