A MOTHER died suddenly from a blood clot just weeks after the birth of her baby.

Laura Newland, 30, of Foredown Road, Portslade collapsed and died just seven weeks after the birth of her son Jaxson from un undiagnosed clot that had been growing undetected during her pregnancy.

Last Wednesday Laura was having breathing difficulties and struggling to walk following the birth of Jaxson.

She promised her mother she would get her health problems looked at during her postnatal doctor's appointment the following day - by which time it was tragically too late.

A post-mortem found that a blood clot in her leg had developed during pregnancy and had detached unexpectedly, causing a massive embolism.

Her mother Marion Cook, 56, of Graham Avenue, Portslade, has been left to look after her Jaxson her and seven-year-old Callum.

She said: "It is just such a shock we never expected this in a million years.

"She wanted Jaxson so desperately and she hasn't had the chance to enjoy him. I find that incredibly sad.

"It is completely devastating for everyone.

"She always did so much for her kids.

“Since the day Laura was born she was more precious than a pearl and she blossomed into a loving, caring mother who always put her two boys above anything else."

She added: “We had a bond so strong and spent a lot of time together as mother and daughter.

“And then along came the two gorgeous little boys who I always promised to take care of if she couldn’t.

"When she was younger she used to cry and say I'm never going to have a baby.

"Then Callum came along and he was poorly but she was overjoyed. Then she has this perfectly healthy baby and this happens. It seems so unfair and just shows you life is so fragile."

Laura had been training as a makeup artist and hairdresser at City College Brighton and Hove.

Friends have started raising funds to support Laura's family and to help pay for funeral costs.

Marion described her daughter as "such a girlie girl" who loved everything pink.

She added: "At her funeral we are going to ask everyone to wear something pink.

"She would have loved that."

Katie Jewell who set up the fund said: "To anyone who knew Laura, you would know what a kind, caring and sensitive women she was. Always there to help out others, and most importantly being the best ever mum she could be to those boys of hers."

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LAURA WAS AMAZING WITH HER KIDS, SAYS GRAN

TINY eight week old Jaxson looks fretful in his grandmother’s arms.

“He is the absolute spit of his mother,” said Marion Cook, the grandmother whose delight at the new addition to her family turned to tragedy when her daughter Laura suddenly died when he was just seven weeks old.

“I’m OK in the day, because I’m so busy looking after Jackson.

“But at three or four in the morning I just cant get back to sleep because my brain doesn’t switch off. After I went to see her at the mortuary I said to my other kids: ‘It just feels so wrong. You should be burying me.’”

Jaxson has just started to smile and is making cooing noises, milestones his mother will never get to see.

Marion has been comforting him by putting one of Laura’s T-shirts in his crib as it still has her smell on it.

“He’s such a snugly baby and you see him squirming around clearly looking to snuggle up to her,” she added.

Laura had always wanted to be a mother. She had cried to her own mother in younger years that she feared she may never become a mum.

When her first son Callum was born prematurely, weighing only 2lbs 9oz, she spent weeks fretting at his hospital bedside. She was amazing with the kids.

“She started training as a nursery nurse and when she was pregnant with Callum she was so worried something would happen.

“Then when he was born and he was so tiny she was constantly at the hospital.

“She just wanted to be there with him. She always said to me I don’t want Callum to be an only child. And when Jaxson came along she was just so besotted with him.”

During the pregnancy Laura said she had felt unwell but had no idea of how serious it was.

Feeling out of breath and struggling to walk she promised her mother she would get some rest and talk to her doctor about it at her post-natal check-up the following day.

But later that day she collapsed and died.

During her pregnancy she had been diagnosed with gestational diabetes and pre-eclampsia.

She had been given blood thinning drugs which she had to continue to take for six weeks after Jaxson was delivered by Caesarean at the Princess Royal in Haywards Heath. It is thought that in the week that followed her stopping the drugs the undetected blot clot detached, travelled to her lungs causing heart failure – but no one could have known.

Marion, who works at the Sewing Shop in Shoreham, had to break the news to Callum – who suffers from disabilities and is still struggling to understand the permanency of the situation.

“I said he him ‘you know mummy was poorly? well the doctors couldn’t fix her.

“He said ‘they couldn’t help my mummy?’ “He went up to my nephew the other day and said ‘my mummy’s dying’.

“He doesn’t really understand the difference between dying and dead, but it breaks your heart to hear that.”

Marion is not sure how she will help Callum come to terms with his mother’s death. When she used to babysit he would spend the whole time asking to know when she was coming home.

Marion recalls her loving daughter who had “almost too big a heart”.

“She was so sweet natured,” she said. “She would never had intentionally hurt anyone. She used to say to me: ‘Mum, I don’t know what I would do without you.’”