angel baby

angel baby (plural angel babies)

1. (informal, euphemistic) A stillborn baby.
   • 2012, Janet M. Rennie, Rennie & Roberton's Textbook of Neonatology E-Book, page 401:

     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, […]