Devastated dad has 'lost everything' after both girlfriend and baby die within hours

Daniel Darbyshire, 18, has been near devastated aft his woman Mellodie-Ocean Jarman, 19, died soon aft giving commencement to their archetypal kid Athena-Pearl, who tragically passed distant arsenic well

A heartbroken dada has “lost everything” arsenic his newborn babe died conscionable hours aft his partner.

Daniel Darbyshire, 18, was looking guardant to having a babe with his woman Mellodie-Ocean Jarman, from Atherton, Greater Manchester, and everything appeared to beryllium going well.

But present helium finds himself not knowing “what to bash with himself” aft suffering a treble tragedy, according to his uncle Steven Darby.

Mellodie, 19, had gone for a regular pregnancy scan connected January 31. She felt faint and dizzy en way and the doc said she was debased connected robust truthful she was sent location with medication, says her family.

Then the adjacent time astatine location Mellodie began to kick she was having difficulties breathing and struggling to see. Mellodie was rushed to the Royal Bolton Hospital arsenic paramedics desperately tried to revive her by performing CPR.

After they arrived astatine the hospital, an exigency C-section was performed and Mellodie gave commencement to babe Athena-Pearl 7 weeks early, successful the aboriginal hours of February 2. Tragically Mellodie died astir an hr aft the cognition and the household were told babe Athena-Pearl wasn’t going to marque it.

Daniel pushed Athena-Pearl successful a pushchair backmost up to the neonatal ward to walk immoderate much clip with her and she yet passed distant astatine conscionable earlier 6.30pm.

It has near Daniel ammunition shocked with Steven saying: “He doesn’t cognize what to bash with himself, which is understandable successful these situations – he’s mislaid everything. Everything he’s planned, everything he’s wanted to bash seems worse astatine the minute. We’re supporting him the champion we can.”

Steven, 32, explained: “We got a telephone telephone astatine astir 4 o’clock to accidental babe was deteriorating truthful we request to marque our mode back. We made our mode backmost up to the suite and we proceeded to talk to the clergyman and person a baptism. Then it was planned for Athena to beryllium placed connected a portable instrumentality truthful she tin locomotion down and transportation to the mortuary, wherever she was placed successful Mellodie’s arms and her beingness enactment was switched off.”

Now, the household faces having to wage steep ceremonial costs with a GoFundMe page acceptable up. Steven said connected the leafage astir the decease of the mum and child: “After what felt similar an eternity of anguish, we were fixed the gut-wrenching acquisition of placing Mellodie’s girl successful her arms arsenic the machines fell silent.

"Together, they fell into an eternal sleep, bound by an unbreakable enslaved of emotion that transcends all. The symptom we are enduring is unfathomable. Daniel and Mellodie’s household find themselves unprepared, navigating this unimaginable nonaccomplishment portion trying to comprehend what lies ahead."

Mellodie's mum Justine said: "Mellodie was a sassy, upfront idiosyncratic who ever said it however it is. She knew what she wanted successful beingness and ever recovered the banter and comic broadside successful things. She was a existent character.”

Steven added: "At the moment, we don't cognize thing until an probe determines the afloat grade of what happened. She was a steadfast 19-year-old with nary wellness complications, truthful we conscionable can't comprehend what has happened. Now we are having to spell to ceremonial directors and benignant retired ceremonial costs, which is rather a daunting acquisition successful itself, truthful I wanted to setup a fundraiser truthful the household bash not person to interest astir immoderate of these costs.

"It was profoundly traumatic [in hospital] but the doctors and neo-natal squad were perfectly fantastic, and they each tried their implicit champion to prevention the baby. You could archer that it was traumatic for them too, but they did each they could to enactment us."