'Healthy' first-time mum, 19, and newborn baby die just hours apart after routine scan

Mellodie-Ocean Jarman, 19, had an exigency C-section aft becoming unwell and being rushed to infirmary but tragically died having fixed commencement to babe Athena-Pearl who besides didn't marque it

A ‘healthy’ large first-time mum and her newborn baby person died conscionable hours apart.

Mellodie-Ocean Jarman, 19, had complained astir feeling faint and dizzy connected her mode to a regular pregnancy scan connected January 31. At her scan, a doc told Mellodie she was ‘low connected iron’ aft she complained of her symptoms.

Family members accidental she was sent location with medicine and antibiotics. Back astatine location successful Atherton, Greater Manchester, the adjacent day, 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. She leaves down her 18-year-old partner, Daniel Darbyshire, and grieving parent Justine Ryan, aged 52.

Heartbroken uncle Steven Darby, 32, said: “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.”

Devastated spouse Daniel past pushed Athena-Pearl successful a pushchair backmost up to the neonatal ward to walk immoderate much clip with her. She yet passed distant astatine conscionable earlier 6.30pm. Steven added: “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.”

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."