What are you called when you lose a child?

i thought even if lose the child ,but,still was the child's mother.

I think it's very painfull... If I were a mother who lose my child I don't know what would I do.. Actually, I don't know what can we call this problem. sometimes, if I heard about mother who lose his son or doughter, I think how's the feeling of woman who did abortion...

I think that, in the past, losing a child was so commonplace that there is no word for it in English (I don't know about other languages). Relationship words are quite fascinating in different languages. For example in some cultures there are very exact relationship words which define a brother of your mother differently from a brother of your father and the spouse of your mother or father's sister differently as well. In English we would use the term 'uncle' for all of them. The same languages, though, might use the same word indiscriminately for relationships such as cousin second cousin or sibling where we make a distinction.

Unlucky? No, seriously, I don't think there is a collective word for it since in the old days there was hardly a family who had not lost a child. It was normal. Thank goodness for modern science and medecine!

It is a sad thing to lose any member of your family. To loose a child is really hard. I really don't think there is a name for it. No one really wants to be reminded that they have lost a child.

My best friend (close enough to be my sister) just lost her baby on the 7th of this month and I still think of her as a mama, even though it was her first child.