A Pennsylvania family is reeling in shock after losing their 16-week-old daughter while she was at day care for the first time.
Adrienne Kromer had been on maternity leave since her daughter, McKenna Rose Felmly’s birth on December 15.
On April 1, Kromer reluctantly returned to work for the first time. She dropped the baby off at Sharon’s Day Care in Treichlers community, about 10 miles north of Allentown, at 7:45 a.m, according to a GoFundMe page set up by Bryan Felmly, the baby’s father.
Kromer called in three times during the day to check on her daughter. She was told the girl was fine in the morning. Around lunch she was told the baby wouldn’t take a bottle. At 2:30 p.m. she was told McKenna drank some milk, was laid down, and quickly fell asleep.
That was “very unlike her,” Felmly wrote. “She always takes a while to fall asleep. Lots of rocking, swaying, cuddling, etc.”
Kromer said she felt “heartbroken” and decided to leave work an hour early---3:30 p.m.
While on her way to pick up her baby, at 3:39 p.m., Kromer received a call from the daycare.
