Life Mom wants change after baby dies from meningitis. ‘We wanted to climb mountains with her’ March 25, 2019 Whitney Woodworth, Salem Statesman Journal Comments Off on Mom wants change after baby dies from meningitis. ‘We wanted to climb mountains with her’ In a matter of days, a Salem mother watched her 7-week-old baby goes from happy and alert to gravely sick with meningitis to dying in her arms.