{"id":418472,"date":"2026-07-30T20:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T20:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/418472\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T20:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T20:30:13","slug":"authorities-investigate-babys-death-at-san-francisco-childcare-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/418472\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities Investigate Baby\u2019s Death at San Francisco Childcare Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

The baby\u2019s mother said her daughter stopped breathing after choking on milk.<\/p>\n

Jul 30, 2026<\/p>\n

Updated 1:13 pm PT<\/p>\n

Daisy Nguyen<\/a>Katie DeBenedetti<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Plush sheep, moon, and stars hanging on a baby mobile in a crib with canopy. Records show that state regulators received two complaints in 2023 concerning children\u2019s safety at the licensed childcare home.
\n\u00a0(Svetlana Repnitskaya via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Local and state authorities are investigating the death of a 3-month-old girl at a licensed childcare home in San Francisco\u2019s Bayview district<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The San Francisco Fire Department said it responded to a report of a medical emergency at Mama Nida\u2019s Loving Arms Childcare last Friday, shortly after 11 a.m.<\/p>\n

After providing medical care at the scene, first responders took the baby to UCSF Medical Center in Mission Bay, where she was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n

Police said the medical examiner\u2019s office will investigate the infant\u2019s cause of death.<\/p>\n

\"\"UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay in San Francisco on April 24, 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this time there is no evidence of foul play nor is it suspected,\u201d Officer Eve Laokwansathitaya said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Gwenisha Terrell, the child\u2019s mother, told the San Francisco Chronicle that a few hours after dropping off her baby, Cya, and her 2-year-old sister, Cia, the childcare provider\u2019s daughter called to alert her that Cya had choked on milk and stopped breathing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to a GoFundMe post<\/a> for Terrell and her husband,\u00a0the couple was planning to celebrate their older daughter\u2019s birthday later that day.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a single day, this loving family experienced unimaginable joy and unimaginable heartbreak,\u201d the post said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"View of the San Francisco skyline in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood on Nov. 13, 2022.<\/p>\n

The California Department of Social Services is conducting a separate investigation into what led to baby Cya\u2019s death. A department spokeswoman, Theresa Mier, said she couldn\u2019t comment further on the ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n

Saulny-Green is licensed to provide care for up to eight children in her home. State law allows one adult to care for up to eight children, provided that no more than two of them are infants and at least two children are older than 6.<\/p>\n

Providers typically have a family member or assistant to help them out, depending on capacity and the age of the children.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 2024, Saulny-Green was among 21 Black early childhood educators honored by Children\u2019s Council San Francisco, a local childcare resource and referral agency, for caring for children in high-need communities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On social media, Saulny-Green posted photos of the kids under her care, highlighting their developmental progress and the healthy foods that she served them. One post shows a photo of San Francisco Supervisor Shamann Walton, whose district includes Bayview, visiting her home in April 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was such an honor to be able to showcase all that I have accomplished and even learned through the years of experience that I have in childcare and child development,\u201d she wrote in the post.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"ASan Francisco Board of Supervisors President Shamann Walton and his fellow supervisors are challenging Mayor Breed and the Navy over Bayview-Hunters Point.<\/p>\n

\u201cChildcare is more than just giving adequate care to infants, toddlers and children,\u201d it said. \u201cPutting time and effort, dedication and hard work to implement a plan that will help better the future of our youth is what it\u2019s all about.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not immediately clear whether anyone at the childcare home knew how to administer lifesaving efforts when the baby experienced the medical emergency.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Licensed childcare providers must learn and maintain current certification in pediatric CPR and first aid.<\/p>\n

An update to state licensing rules<\/a> that went into effect this month requires assistants or other staff members at a family childcare home to also learn pediatric CPR and first aid, including the use of auto-injectors to treat life-threatening allergic reactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The baby\u2019s mother said her daughter stopped breathing after choking on milk. Jul 30, 2026 Updated 1:13 pm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-418472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}