A mother-of-three who was seven months pregnant and had previously reported feeling “not too good” passed away abruptly.
Last Tuesday morning, Zoe Green of Kettering experienced a sudden cardiac arrest, and her unborn baby, Cobie, who she had already planned to name, also died from a lack of oxygen.
The 26-year-old was a mother to Ralphie, 10 months, Oakleigh, 4, and Lincoln, 5 years old.
A GoFundMe campaign has been put up by family friend Kelly Mercer to help the kids and pay for the funeral.
Since Zoe’s son would be attending the youth group, Kelly claimed to have spoken to her on Monday. This week, an autopsy is scheduled, according to Northants Live.
She said: “Zoe went to school with my daughter. I’ve known her all her life. On Tuesday morning she rang her mum, at 5.30am in the morning, saying she didn’t feel very well.
“Her mum lives five minutes away, but by the time she walked down, Zoe was dead on the floor in the bathroom. She was stuck between the bath and the door and they couldn’t get in. She leaves behind three children and then obviously she was seven months pregnant.
“Unfortunately, the baby then had no oxygen so he then died. Everybody is in complete shock. She goes today to Leicester Royal Infirmary because there’s nobody that does post-mortems on pregnant ladies in the area.
“Hopefully, by the end of the week, they’ll actually know what actually happened. To our knowledge, she was fine. She just woke in the night and didn’t feel well so phoned her mum who would pop along.
“At the moment it’s down as cardiac arrest, but obviously, it may be something else with the post-mortem. We’re doing different things to try to help.”
Along with the GoFundMe, Kelly has organised a raffle, and the funds will be used to pay for Zoe’s burial costs and to support her young family.
The youngest, Ralphie, lives with his father right now, while the two oldest are currently living with Zoe’s parents. They’re so young, Kelly remarked, and folks are just lending a hand where they can.
“Her partner is in shock as well. Zoe went to school with my daughter and came to my youth group as a kid. She was a lovely girl and very bubbly. She would work part-time and was a really nice girl. It is absolutely awful.
“We’re just trying to raise as much as we can and just make the day a bit easier for them. We will fundraise until March 9 and then I’m going to do a coffee morning on March 10, unless it’s the funeral.” As of Tuesday (February 14) morning, the GoFundMe has raised £3,385 – smashing its original target of £2000 which it reached within 24 hours.
Kelly added: “A man who used to live on the estate bought a Nintendo Switch for us to raffle so that’s another £300 We’re just doing little things. Somebody else has donated a scooter but people have been absolutely amazing.
“My daughter’s the same age. I thought it could be my daughter and it’s just so heart-breaking. People have been lovely. I know the kids need to get bunk beds as it is different having them now and again to having them permanently.
“It helps in a way but it still doesn’t help the pain. Hopefully, it helps financially. She probably wouldn’t have had a will or anything like that. Her mum and dad are not in that position either.”
