Family’s agony as mum dies hours after giving birth
A DAD has shared his heartbreak after his wife died just hours after giving birth to their second child.
Taylor Foster had son Koa naturally without any complications on Tuesday evening, six days before her due date.
Husband Sean had been by her side throughout and said the 25-year-old was ‘a superstar,’ needing only gas and air for the delivery of their 7lb 7oz son.
Both she and Koa were fine and Sean returned home to Platt Bridge in Wigan later that night, leaving them on the mother and baby ward at Whiston Hospital.
But early on Wednesday morning, he got a phone call telling him to get to the hospital as Taylor had been taken ill.
Maternity staff had found her unresponsive in bed at around 5.30am. When he got there medics were still doing chest compressions – but he was soon told nothing more could be done.
Sean, 31, told the M.E.N he is still coming to terms with losing Taylor and still hasn’t told their older son, two-year-old Elijah, who will struggle to contemplate what has happened.
“I’m just numb, I don’t know how to feel,” he said. “I have moments where I’m OK and trying to be strong for Elijah – I’m trying to keep him in his routine at nursery while I have time to process it all – but then I’ll have other times when I just feel numb.”
Taylor had started in labour after a regular check-up at hospital on Tuesday lunchtime. Apart from suffering heartburn, her pregnancy had been without complications.
Sean said: “She’d come home to monitor her contractions but we more or less had to get straight back there. We picked up a couple of things from home to drop at nursery for our other son and then we got back to the hospital about 4.30pm. Koa was born just an hour later. The birth was perfect. Taylor had asked for an epidural at one point but before they could even get the paperwork ready, she’d given birth.”
Sean, who met Taylor seven years ago at the couple’s workplace, Lowri Beck in Wigan, recalled the last time he spoke with his wife. “After the birth she’d been up and walking around and got herself showered,” he said. “I was there until about 11 when she was moved to another ward and I couldn’t go in.
“Once at home I messaged her and told her how proud I was of her and that I loved her.
“If anything could describe her she was meant to be a mum, and she was a perfect mum. She was born to do it.”
Sean’s brother Chris has set up a fundraising account to help pay towards funeral costs and bills for the family. The fund has smashed the £3.5k target in just a day and so far stands at £11.4k.
If anything could describe her she was meant to be a mum, she was a perfect mum Taylor’s husband Sean