Understand that it’s traumatic
A baby’s death is never an easy thing to witness, but for some it’s beyond traumatizing. Amy Martin, an emergency room physician, lost her daughter Savannah at 3 days old. Savannah had a terminal brain disorder and was placed on anti-seizure medication that suppressed her respiratory drive — so, basically, in order to stop her brain from seizing, her life depended on a ventilator. Martin had to make the decision for her daughter to seize to death or suffocate, a choice no mother should have to make. She made the decision to let the anti-seizure medication wear off and keep her on the ventilator until her last breath. When she should have been deciding on which outfit to leave the hospital in, Martin was making an informed choice on how to let her baby leave this earth.
