Teenage mum and newborn baby die within hours of each other after mum ‘felt dizzy’

A heavy large teenage mum and her newborn babe tragically died conscionable hours isolated – a time aft she was sent location from a gestation scan with immoderate antibiotics.

Mellodie-Ocean Jarman, 19, from Atherton successful Manchester, complained astir feeling faint and dizzy connected her mode to a regular scan connected Friday, January 31.

During the appointment, a doc told Mellodie she was ‘low connected iron’ aft she complained of her symptoms and was sent location with medicine and antibiotics.

But the pursuing day, Mellodie began to kick she was having difficulties breathing and struggling to see.

She was rushed to the Royal Bolton Hospital and soon mislaid consciousness 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 Sunday, 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 the 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.’

Heartbroken 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.

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 acceptable up 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 neonatal 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.’

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