‘Healthy’ First-Time Mom, 19, and Newborn Die Within Hours of Each Other: 'Together, They Fell into an Eternal Sleep'

Mar. 15, 2025

A first-time mom, 19, and her newborn died within hours of each other after the teen collapsed in her mother’s arms at home.

Mellodie-Ocean Jarman complained of feeling faint and dizzy as she headed to aroutine pregnancy scanon January 31. She was sent home with medication, including antibiotics — but later that evening, her condition deteriorated, her family tells South West News Service viaThe Daily Mail.

At 11:20 pm, the teen said she was struggling to breathe and to see, prompting a call to emergency services. While they were waiting for an ambulance to arrive, Jarman collapsed into the arms of her mother, Justine Ryan.

Paramedics arrived at their home in the English town of Atherton and tried to revive Jarman withCPR. They rushed her to the hospital, where she underwent anemergency C-sectionto deliver daughter Athena-Pearl — seven weeks early.

Athena-Pearl was born at 12:32 am on February 2 — but approximately 80 minutes later, Jarman died.

Jarman’s mother Ryan remembered her daughter as knowing “what she wanted in life and always found the banter and funny side in things. She was a real character.”

“Everything he’s planned, everything he’s wanted to do seems worse at the minute,” he told the outlet. “We’re supporting him the best we can.”

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source: people.com