Kaitlyn Farris has gone through one of the worst events in life.
"We didn’t really have a rhyme or reason to think that anything was wrong," Farris said.
Losing a child is a terrible grief that more and more parents in the U.S. are experiencing according to new data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released Wednesday.
The report shows the infant mortality rate in 2021 was 5.44%. In 2022, it was 5.6%. That's the infant mortality rate increasing 3%.
Primary Pediatrics Dr. Lance Slade believes transitioning out of the pandemic has had a role to play in these numbers increasing.
"We've had a few years of COVID separation and getting back together you're seeing a lot more illnesses, so I think that would make a lot of sense of what could've happened last year because of the two years of separation kid's immune system went down and they didn't handle the illness as well," Slade said.
