A Nigerian father in the UK has been left to bring up his daughter alone after his wife died while six months pregnant - but her baby was delivered alive.

Emmanuel Olubayo could only watch helplessly as Emma, a nursing team leader, collapsed from an undetected heart defect and died in the home they shared in Leicestershire.

Paramedics tried for an hour to resuscitate the 41-year-old before performing a rare posthumous delivery.

They carried out an emergency Caesarean section on the living room floor last November.

The couple's baby girl Aretha was delivered alive then taken to hospital.

Emmanuel said he was shocked to become a father and a widower on the same day.

The 35-year-old education consultant said:

“It is hard and I don’t really know how I am coping as single dad but I am.

“I have to be strong for Aretha. One day I will tell her all about her mother and how wonderful she was.”

He said he believed his wife of eight months, whose heart suddenly stopped, had battled on to give their daughter Aretha the chance to live.

Aretha was born 10 weeks prematurely and was taken to hospital where she was cared for by members of the team that Emma led – the critical care outreach team which covers Glenfield Hospital, Leicester Royal Infirmary and Leicester General Hospital.

Emmanuel, who was living in Birmingham, told how he and Emma fell in love after meeting in an internet dating chat room.

“I knew when I started chatting to Emma online that she was special," he said. "We had an immediate connection.

“We got on really well and arranged to meet after three weeks chatting.”

The pair had their first date at the Parcel Yard pub in Leicester in May 2016.

Emmanuel said:

“I caught a train after work and we met at about 7pm. We did not want the night to end and I caught the last train home to Birmingham. The evening had flown by and we talked about everything and nothing.

We could not wait to see each other and were in contact all the time from that night on. It was as if we were meant to be together.”

The romance blossomed as Emma travelled to Birmingham and Emmanuel came to Leicester to see each other.

In December 2016 – seven months after they first chatted online – Emmanuel popped the question.

“We were out for meal in Birmingham when I got down on one knee in the restaurant," he said.

“I gave Emma a sapphire ring and asked her to marry me. She said yes and was ecstatic. Everyone cheered. It was beautiful.”

The pair married in Birmingham in April 2017.

https://lailasnews.com/nigerian-man-in-the-uk-loses-wife-at-6-months-pregnancy-baby-survives/

God will see you thru man.

In my country a 10-month old pregnancy is not guaranteed talk of 6-months old. Thank God they live in a country with a working health care system.
Grow up baby. God is your strength.

izzou:




How do people actually fall in love with someone online?

Same way I am in love with you...
I can't even explain it.
But since you asked, I just have to tell.
And I need you to be rest assured I mean what I say,
'cos I only say the things I mean.




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RIP to the woman. It is a sad one.

So touching story

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Same way I am in love with you...
I can't even explain it.
But since you asked, I just have to tell.
And I need you to be rest assured I mean what I say,
'cos I only say the things I mean.








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pocohantas:


I just dey look you

what's with the Nigerian flag.

The nigga sold his house to go to Russia world cup

Thegamingorca:

what's with the Nigerian flag.
The nigga sold his house to go to Russia world cup

LOL. E fit be o

pocohantas:


RIP to the woman. It is a sad one.

It's so so sad.....











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WHO KILLED HER?

PurplePatch:
God will see you thru man.

In my country a 10-month old pregnancy is not guaranteed talk of 6-months old. Thank God they live in a country with a working health care system.
Grow up baby. God is your strength.

Even after the mother had died. They still delivered the child.

Posthumous CS.

41 and pregnant? A wrong combination.....

Lexusgs430:
41 and pregnant? A wrong combination.....

First pregnancy again for that matter..
But who you go blame na?

SheikhMuniru:
WHO KILLED HER?

Emmanuel's village people

GrammarCheck:


First pregnancy again for that matter..
But who you go blame na?

My Oga if you ask me, who I go ask? This matter you see so, e heavy 4 mouth.....

GrammarCheck:


First pregnancy again for that matter..
But who you go blame na?

Lesson to our ladies....... Make hay while the sun shines....

Stop spending your time slaying, oloshoing and friendzoning.......

I lost a 7 month old baby to the nonsense healthcare system of Nigeria. My heart still bleeds whenever I remember 25th of October 2017. When are we gonna get things right in Nigeria? imagine delivering a baby from a dead woman; doctors in Nigeria would have buried both of them without checking.

izzou:



It's so so sad.....











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Una no go kill person with laugh for this Nairaland... Lmaoo

anny268:
Una no go kill person with laugh for this Nairaland... Lmaoo

Dripy:
I lost a 7 month old baby to the nonsense healthcare system of Nigeria. My heart still bleeds whenever I remember 25th of October 2017. When are we gonna get things right in Nigeria? imagine delivering a baby from a dead woman; doctors in Nigeria would have buried both of them without checking.

So sorry dear, thank God you are alive to have more babies.

Dripy:
I lost a 7 month old baby to the nonsense healthcare system of Nigeria. My heart still bleeds whenever I remember 25th of October 2017. When are we gonna get things right in Nigeria? imagine delivering a baby from a dead woman; doctors in Nigeria would have buried both of them without checking.

You lack wisdom,
Ask God for it

I hear someone saying 41 and first pregnancy... How is that the cause of her death? Please enligthen me

some mor0ns will still come on here and say "its God's work blah blah," "don't tell me there's no god nonsense"

here is a thought ...the level of healthcare system in a country determines the number of people "god" saves from death.

great thing you were in the UK fellow countryman..if you were here, you'd have been hearing stories like "god probably did you a good thing by killing your wife and child". mor0ns still wont think why its better for a supposed omnipotent god to save your wife and child.

Yinxies:
I hear someone saying 41 and first pregnancy... How is that the cause of her death? Please enligthen me

Are you 41?

Beautiful baby.

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