Baby monitor videos yield evidence for long-suspected link between seizures and unexplained toddler deaths
“It was the videos alone that implicated seizures. Otherwise, we would have not had evidence that seizures had occurred," said NYU's Laura Gould.
The baby monitor didn’t go off. Any sound or motion in the twins’ room was supposed to set off an alarm — but in the wee hours of Nov. 27, 2022, Katie Czajkowski-Fell and Justin Fell weren’t woken up. They’d gotten it because of Hayden’s febrile seizures. These are common, generally nothing to worry about, the doctors said. Toddlers’ immune responses can be more assertive than adults’, burning into action against a world they’re still getting used to, routinely sparking high fevers, potentially irritating the brain. Hayden would likely grow out of them.
Still, Katie worried. Whenever he got sick, he began to convulse; she felt helpless, watching his eyes roll back. What if it happened during sleep? Hence the baby monitor, filming, storing footage, ready to trip an alarm.
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