ALABASTER, Ala. (WIAT) — A 6-month-old girl has died after being involved in a dog attack in Alabaster on Friday morning, Alabaster police confirmed. According to Bibb County Coroner Patrick Turner, the victim was taken to Children's of Alabama after being attacked by a dog on Friday. Turner sa id the baby was from Bibb County, though the attack happened at a family member's home in Shelby County. Alabaster police said the attack happened around 10 a.m. Friday at a home on 10th St SW. Police said it was a family member's home and dog. According to police, there were two dogs at the home when the attack happened. Both were taken into a 10-day quarantine by animal control. Alabaster police are investigating the case. Police said they are not pursuing charges at this time but are leaving it up to the Shelby County district attorney and grand jury. Anna Southard is the mother of 6-month-old Ember Renee Southard. She said her daughter was attacked by an 11-year-old American Bully. Southard did not wish to do an on-camera interview but answered questions via email. The questions and responses are as follows: How are you and your family holding up right now amidst this tragedy?  "My family isn't holding up," Southard replied. "We lost a perfect baby. My daughter. We lost my daughter in a horrible accident within 20 minutes." Can you tell me what happened on Friday? Who was Ember with and what led up to the attack? What kind of dog was it that attacked her?  "Friday morning, I went to take my grandmother to a doctor's appointment at 9:40,  I was going to just take my daughter with me but my family said 20 minutes would be fine," Southard wrote. "We hadn't even checked in at the doctor, we hadn't even been gone 20 minutes, before we got a phone call from the family member watching her. I raced home, and got there just behind the ambulance. My daughter already looked dead. I hit my knees in the driveway hard enough to make them bleed. I heard dog attack. My grandfather got there the same time I did. They got Ember in the ambulance, and I rode upfront. I kept begging for her to be okay but I already knew my daughter wasn't going to live. I knew it the moment I saw her blue and unmoving. She was with this family member for 20 minutes. She was attacked by an American Bully, an 11 year old dog that had been around countless children, and has never harmed one before." How did you find out what happened? What were your first thoughts when you heard?  "My first thoughts were rage," Southard stated. "The family member fell asleep with my daughter on their chest, my daughter fell from their chest and was mauled by the dog. They then called my nanny, and then 911. The family member is epileptic and had a seizure AFTER my daughter was in the ambulance. Trauma at Children's did their best, and before she went up to the OR they told me it was very touch and go, and unlikely my daughter would live. I still begged them to. At 1:10 Ember passed away despite over a dozen doctors best interest." Even though she was extremely young, what kind of personality did Ember have?  "My daughter was so sweet," Southard replied. "She had the sweetest smile, the cutest squeal. Ember was such a joy. Such a good baby. She always had a little smile and big beautiful eyes. She hated to be cold, or wet. I can't even describe the feeling of cleaning the blood off my daughter. Of wrapping her body in warm blankets so that she wouldn't be cold. Only me, and my grandparents saw her first after she passed. I didn't allow anyone else to see her until she was as clean and warm as she could be. "Ember's nickname was noodle. Because as a newborn she had little noodly- toes and the name just stuck. A wittle noodle. A perfect noodle. She was loved by so many people. Ember was an expert at smiling at you before spitting up on you, she had the sweetest voice. She had just learned how to roll over. There wasn't a soul that met her that didn't absolutely love her. She had wild blonde/red hair, big bright eyes. There was never a more perfect baby than my noodle." Will you be pressing charges or seeking legal action for the death of your daughter?  "At first, when I was angry, yes I wanted charges pressed," Southard wrote. "There is an investigation, but I am not going to push it one way or the other. I will NEVER forgive this family member for falling asleep with my daughter on their chest. Never. My daughter is gone forever because they couldn't follow a simple [expletive] rule. I follow safe sleep rules to the letter, and I never allow my children around dogs like that. Always supervised with me holding them. I don't believe charges should be continued, and I will not be actively pressing them. I think the punishment of knowing what their neglect did to my daughter will haunt them for the rest of their life, as it should. It was an accident. An avoidable accident, is still an accident." A GoFundMe has been started to help cover funeral costs. What does that mean to you and your family?  "The GoFundMe is to help with funeral costs for my daughter, and everything surrounding," Southard stated. "Flowers, headstone, burial plot. I didn't make the GoFundMe, my aunt did. The GoFundMe names the car wreck I had Thursday morning, where I hit two deer and damaged my car. I could care less about my car." How can the community help y'all through this time? "Community wise? I don't know honestly," Southard replied. "The GoFundMe is open for donations, they can also donate via cash app or venmo. But the main the the community can do for me is hold their babies closer. Follow safe sleep. Keep dogs, ALL DOGS, away from your baby. Any dog can kill an infant. There's no reason to risk it. It's never worth it. Please, please keep your children away from dogs and follow safe sleep. This dog was 11 years old and had never harmed a human, much less a child." Is there anything else you want to say about Ember or share about the incident? "The only extra thing about Ember, is she was hardly called Ember," Southard wrote. "She was, is and always will be my little noodle baby." A link to the GoFundMe can be found here. ...read more read less