Commentary for Arakhin 13:33

חטא באותה שעה אין נזקקין לו ליפלוג וליתני בדידה

Now this [as is clearly indicated] applies only to a child 'one day old', but not to an embryo, because it would die first and no son already in the grave can inherit from his mother to bequeath to his paternal brothers?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hence, when the mother dies after the child, her property does not sow to the child, which is legally assumed to be in the grave; he is therefore unable to inherit his mother's property and much less to bequeath it to his paternal brothers. This proves that the child is assumed to die before the mother as otherwise the case above could also deal with an unborn child, whilst the Mishnah limits it to the child born and one day old.');">¹⁸</span>

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