A Michigan family is looking for answers after burying a 25-year-old mother who lost her life after giving birth to her second child.
The woman, who otherwise seemed healthy, had an emergency craniotomy after a post-labor CT scan revealed excessive bleeding on the side of her brain. A craniotomy is a procedure to relieve swelling and pressure on the brain caused by hematoma and trauma.
The deceased’s mother said she is waiting for an autopsy to provide the grieving family with insight into what happened to Alona White on March 7 at Ascension St. John Hospital, according to FOX 2 Detroit.
Katina Ponder, White’s mother, said her two granddaughters will now have to grow up without the care of their mother.
“I did not expect to get a call saying that my baby passed away,” Ponder said.
While Aleah Sullivan, 2, and Ari, two weeks old, are too young to understand that their mother has passed, family members are also in the dark regarding why a headache turned so deadly so quickly.
“She was 25, perfectly healthy, I just don’t know what went wrong,” she said, adding, “We went from being joyful to devastated.”
According to her mother, White was all smiles and excited to give birth to Ari, her new baby. Like many women, she went into the hospital to have a cesarean delivery performed and anticipated an easy procedure.
Hours after giving birth, Baby Ari was taken to the NICU. Still, after a few hours passed, White was able to nurse her newborn. After breastfeeding, the mom started getting headaches around 4:30 a.m. Concerned nurses came in to see her, but by the time of their arrival, she was unresponsive.
