'Healthy' first-time mum, 19, and newborn baby die just hours apart after routine scan A ‘healthy’ pregnant first-time mum and her newborn baby have died just hours apart.
Steven said on the page about the death of the mum and child: “After what felt like an eternity of anguish, we were given the gut-wrenching gift of placing Mellodie’s daughter in her arms as the machines fell silent.
Mellodie's mum Justine said: "Mellodie was a sassy, upfront person who always said it how it is.
Heartbroken uncle Steven Darby, 32, said: “We got a phone call at around four o’clock to say baby was deteriorating so we need to make our way back.
After they arrived at the hospital, an emergency C-section was performed and Mellodie gave birth to baby Athena-Pearl seven weeks early, in the early hours of February 2.
