At what point do you call it quits?

Me and my mother have been taking on a medical foster we were sure was going to die over night. She was brought into a vet clinic completely limp and unresponsive 3 days ago, we estimated she’s about 4 weeks old. They gave her pain management and fluids and 1 hour to rally, and she did just a little. It’s been a roller coaster since then. We think head trauma, she’s neurological and has little control of her body. Her eyes were swollen shut, and she had a little blood in her nose.

Since then she’s improved drastically. We got her to start eating, she peed and pooped today for the first time, took her first steps by herself in 3 days last night, and the swelling has gone down.

Around mid-day she wouldn’t eat over 2mL, and now she’s been seizing on and off. A complete 180 from just this morning. We were pretty sure she was going to die, but now I’m completely conflicted. She has made so much great progress that it feels like giving up, but letting her continue like this feels unethical too.

What would you do? If she continues like this all night we will euthanize in the morning, but I don’t want to let her stay like this all night either. I just had so much hope after this morning. Other neonatal fosters, would you give her the night to try and rally or euthanize now?

Me and my mother have been taking on a medical foster we were sure was going to die over night. She was brought into a vet clinic completely limp and unresponsive 3 days ago, we estimated she’s about 4 weeks old. They gave her pain management and fluids and 1 hour to rally, and she did just a little. It’s been a roller coaster since then. We think head trauma, she’s neurological and has little control of her body. Her eyes were swollen shut, and she had a little blood in her nose.

Since then she’s improved drastically. We got her to start eating, she peed and pooped today for the first time, took her first steps by herself in 3 days last night, and the swelling has gone down.

Around mid-day she wouldn’t eat over 2mL, and now she’s been seizing on and off. A complete 180 from just this morning. We were pretty sure she was going to die, but now I’m completely conflicted. She has made so much great progress that it feels like giving up, but letting her continue like this feels unethical too.

What would you do? If she continues like this all night we will euthanize in the morning, but I don’t want to let her stay like this all night either. I just had so much hope after this morning. Other neonatal fosters, would you give her the night to try and rally or euthanize now?