My 18mo cause of death has been ruled “undetermined” Sudden unexplained death. Advice please
Not at all what I was expecting to hear after 5 months of waiting . A perfectly healthy 18 month old girl . My daughter had a rough nights sleep the night before she passed. Couldn’t get settled and sounded congested. The evening before bed she started having a fever & look lethargic, at that time we just thought she was exhausted from the fever. We assumed the fever was coming from her impacted teeth. 😢. We could’ve never imagined it could be something worse. We gave her a safe recommended dose of children’s ibuprofen, she took a little nap and that seemed to help a bit before she ate her dinner and went to bed with me.
She then slept pretty rough like I mentioned before, but woke up in the morning acting like her normal giggly self, playing with her dad & I . She even ate most of her breakfast. It wasn’t until nap time. She started to act lethargic again, but no fever. I noticed one trickle of green snot in her nose, which was very unusual. I know that green usually equals infection. I don’t know how in the hell that didn’t prompt me to take her straight to the hospital. I feel horrible & like a loser & failure. I found her during her afternoon nap, she was face down & already gone .
We’ve been waiting five months to hear back from the medical examiner, and her cause of death has been listed as “ unexplained sudden death” . I don’t even know what to do with this information, if there are any parents that have any experience with this, can you please give me some advice? I’m also curious to hear any information you have found from your research. I’ve done my own research, and there seems to be some similarities with my daughter symptoms and other children her age who died, and it was classified as sudden unexpected death.
I feel like I owe it to my unborn child. I’m currently pregnant with to keep digging for answers. .