Emily Mitchell, a parent blogger and Instagram influencer, died on December 22 at the age of 36, and now her cause of death has been revealed.
According to the Rhode Island Medical Office, Mitchell, who was expecting her fifth child, died of pulmonary embolism.
According to MayoClinic, a pulmonary embolism is a “blockage in one of the pulmonary arteries in your lungs.”
The family made a statement on their GoFundMe page. “While it’s a challenge to turn our heads around how this could have happened, we know that all first responders and medical staff did everything in their power to help, so we’m sure it was simply her time,” she said. they said. “The Lord is calling her home.”
EMILY MITCHELL, PREGNANT PARENT BLOGGER AND INSTAGRAMIN INFLUENCER, DEAD AT 36
According to the family, Mitchell responded to breakfast one morning.
Mitchell’s Instagram, The Hidden Way, usually focused on homeschooling her four children. She spent the weeks leading up to her unexpected death reporting on her pregnancy journey.
Popular Instagram influencer Emily Mitchell has died at the age of 36. (Emily Mitchell Instagram)
(Emily Mitchell Instagram)
In early December, she shared her latest post on Instagram in which she discussed her birth plan for baby number five.
“This will be my FIFTH C Division,” she wrote at the time. “But how your baby gets here, only know YOUR EXPERIENCE is valid and worthy. You are no less a mother if you needed medical intervention, a planned section or an epidural disease. You are not.” a ‘better’ mother if you had a home birth or a non-medicine vaginal birth. And if you grew your offspring through adoption or surrogacy or family mixes? These are YOUR babies and YOU ARE PROUD of sitting at the table of motherhood. “
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She concluded: “My plan was to never have five k-sections. But you can be sure that I am very grateful for that. Even if I were to miss my first on what the ‘real motherhood experience’ had to do. How do I feel now? It does not matter how they come here.It just matters THAT THEY COME HERE.And is so deeply LOVED.
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Mitchell is survived by her husband, Joe, and their children, Finn, Isla, Edie and Lulu. E! News points out that she is also survived by her parents, three siblings, in-laws and several nieces and nephews.
Fox News’ Tyler McCarthy Contributed to This Report