Meanings
nounangel baby (plural angel babies)
plural angel babies
- euphemisticinformalA stillborn baby.
Yet concentration on the healthy baby to the exclusion of the stillbirth or neonatal death may encourage the mother to idealise the dead child (her angel baby) and hence alienate her from the survivor, […]
2012, Janet M. Rennie, Rennie & Roberton's Textbook of Neonatology E-Book, page 401
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