6 months on, the wound from loss of Noelle still raw

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YOUNGSTOWN

The pain has not subsided.

“One day at a time” is how Jaslyn Abrams and her fiance, Teandre Perry, continue to try to deal with the unexpected death of their 21⁄2-month-old daughter, Noelle.

Born March 28, Noelle died June 15, on Father’s Day.

First interviewed in August, the couple said Dec. 18, just six months since the little girl’s death, that they are “getting toward moving on, but we still take it one day at a time.”

The probable cause of Noelle’s death, based on the results of a battery of tests that Trumbull County Coroner Dr. Humphrey D. Germaniuk orders on all unexplained infant deaths, is positional asphyxia, a form of asphyxia that occurs when someone’s position prevents them from breathing.

“It was an unforeseen and unavoidable accident,” Dr. Germaniuk said.

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