Originally Posted by mac

You may be thinking of the Roman Catholic theological point that because stillborn/neonatal death children could not be baptised before they died, they couldn't then enter the kingdom of god.

That came about because there had to be an alternative place to 'go' which would cover the state of being unable to have one's state of 'original sin', with which we all enter this world, being forgiven through baptism.

It couldn't happen for children who had never lived long enough for it to happen. The alleged consequence was that they were said to be in an eternal state of 'limbo'. Lost to all.

That's as close as this Modern Spiritualist can get you to a definition - my heart could break for the poor parents of children snatched away and disposed of without proper burial in consecrated ground as a consequence of the priests and theologians who developed this heartless theological argument.

Limbo has no spiritual significance and it's wholly man-made and inhumane.