In re Z.V. CA4/1

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

A. Z.V.’s Hospitalization In November 2021, Mother and Father had been married for two years and had one child together, then three-month-old Z.V. On November 12, 2021, at around 12:15 a.m., Father woke Z.V. for a routine feeding after Mother went to sleep. After the feeding, Z.V. started screaming and squirming in Father’s arms. Father reported that he attempted to calm Z.V. by patting her back, and Z.V. bumped her head on Father’s head several times. Father paced with Z.V. as she screamed, and Mother called out to ask if Father needed help because he appeared to be panicking. Z.V. turned blue and appeared to lose consciousness as she stopped crying. Father yelled at Mother to call 911 because he believed Z.V. was not breathing. Dispatch advised the parents to do CPR while paramedics were on their way to their home. While Father performed CPR, Z.V. vomited and started crying. When the paramedics arrived, they observed Z.V. to be ashen and limp. The paramedics gave Z.V. oxygen and transported her to the hospital in an ambulance. When Z.V. arrived at the hospital, she was treated by Dr. Lukas Austin-Page. Father arrived at the trauma bay…