Not quite wordless...
Sometimes babies don't make it... and they die unexpectedly.
This is a photo of my grandmother's first child, Elizabeth, known as Betty, b. 1 Feb 1911, in New York. In this photo taken in April 1911, she looks quite healthy and very sweet.
But she died in November 1911 in New York. My grandmother described the autopsy as showing that she died of "massive intestinal complications from a severe milk allergy".
She went on to have 5 more children after Betty, of whom 2 definitely had milk allergies, plus me in the next generation, and 3 of my 4 children.
The back of the photo is in my grandmother's handwriting:
For Aunt Toto
from "Betty" and her mother.
Taken in Baby's nursery when she was just two months old.
