The day she lost her 6-month-old daughter Dahlia was understandably "the worst day" of Ashley Guevara's life. In a first-person account for Love What Matters , the North Carolina mom explained that her little girl was born with a genetic abnormality that causes "low muscle tone, epilepsy, delay in eyecontact , delayed development, and an array of other things." After fighting for her life in the NICU and while battling rhinovirus, the little one was diagnosed with pneumonia. "She declined rapidly," Guevara wrote. "We knew her time was near. We had our whole family come and visit her. The next day, around 3:30 in the morning, her dad and I held onto her while she took her last breath." Guevara wrote that in the wake of her baby's passing, "I lost a chunk of my soul." Making an already heart-wrenching situation even worse: the fact that the very same day she had to say goodbye to her baby girl , she received a "stab to...
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