Emily Mitchell, a parenting blogger and Instagram influencer, died on December 22 at age 36, and now her cause of death has been revealed.
Mitchell, who was expecting his fifth child, died of pulmonary embolism, according to the Rhode Island Medical Examiner’s Office.
According to MayoClinic, a pulmonary embolism is a “blockage in one of the pulmonary arteries in the lungs”.
The family provided a statement on their GoFundMe page. “While it is a challenge to understand how this could have happened, we know that all first aid and medical staff did everything they could to help and therefore we are sure it was just her time,” they said. “The Lord was calling you home.”
EMILY MITCHELL, BLOGGER OF PREGNANT PARENTS AND INFLUENCER OF INSTAGRAM, DEAD AT 36
According to the family, Mitchell stopped responding during breakfast.
Mitchell’s Instagram, The Hidden Way, usually focused on giving home lessons to his four children. She spent the weeks leading up to her unexpected death posting about her pregnancy journey.
Popular Instagram influencer Emily Mitchell died at age 36. (Emily Mitchell Instagram)
(Instagram Emily Mitchell)
In early December, she shared her latest Instagram post in which she discussed her birth plan for baby number five.
“This will be my FIFTH Cesarean,” she wrote at the time. “However you want your baby to get here, know that YOUR EXPERIENCE is valid and worthy. YOU are no less a mother if you needed emergency medical intervention, had a planned cesarean section or an epidural. You are not a ‘better’ mother if you had a home birth or an unmedicated vaginal birth. What if you raised your litter through adoption, surrogacy or family mix? These are YOUR babies and YOU PROUDLY SIT AT THE maternity table. “
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She concluded, “My plan was never to have five caesarean sections. But you can be sure that I am extremely grateful for them. Even though I suffered from the first time I missed what the ‘real experience of motherhood’ should be.” feel now? It doesn’t matter how they get here. It only matters THAT THEY ARRIVE HERE. And be so deeply LOVED. “
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Mitchell leaves her husband, Joe, and their children, Finn, Isla, Edie and Lulu. AND! News notes that she also left her parents, three brothers, in-laws and several nieces and nephews.
Tyler McCarthy of Fox News contributed to this report