“I want to be the one to make the decision for her,” Ms. Lewis said at a hearing last month, according to The Associated Press.

The delay is intended to allow families time to find other medical facilities willing to take such patients and keep them on life support. Cook Children’s said that it had reached out to more than 20 facilities and specialists to continue caring for Tinslee, but that none would agree to accept her.

“Cook Children’s has been devoted to this precious baby her entire life, providing compassionate, round-the-clock, intensive care and attention since she arrived at our hospital 11 months ago,” the hospital’s statement said.

But it maintained that she was suffering from severe sepsis, and was heavily medicated with painkillers, sedatives and paralytics.

“Her body is tired. She is suffering,” the statement said.

The hospital had planned to remove life support in November, after its ethics committee agreed with an assessment by medical experts. Another judge blocked that step before he was removed from the case when the hospital raised questions about his impartiality.