Hey all, Joe here and you are listening to Under the Influence.

I want to start today with a clear heads up about what you're about to hear, because I know

so many of you are listening in the car, on a walk, or while you were folding tiny laundry.

This episode talks about the sudden death of a child and the ongoing grief of a family

learning to live in the world without their daughter.

If that's something that you're not in a place to hear right now, that's totally okay.

Pause, skip this one, come back to it later, or just go listen to some Dolly Parton.

Okay, you do you.

You deserve to choose your happiness.

Take care of yourself first.

Today I'm talking to Dr. Florentia Seguera.

She's a pediatrician and a mother of four.

Her third child, Rosie, died suddenly in her sleep in May of 2024 at just 18 months old.

Florentia and her family would later learn that Rosie was one of at least 433 children in the United States each year

who die from something called sudden unexplained or sudden unexpected death in childhood, also known as SUDC.

Most people, me included, have never heard those letters before.

Even many pediatricians, even Florentia, who had actually heard them before Rosie passed on a podcast

just like this one,

but she'd never heard about it in medical school.

And that's one of the things that makes this kind of loss so isolating

and so bewildering for the families who are living through it.

In our conversation, Florentia tells the story of Rosie,

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