Mum held three-week old baby on chest as she took last breath

The mum never got the chance to cuddle her baby21:42, 12 Jul 2026At just three-weeks-old, Lottie Vince lay on her mum's chest and took her last breath. The 7lb baby caught an infection just days into her short life and died last month on June 29.‌Lottie was born by emergency C-section at Whiston Hospital on June 2. Mum Abbie Sconce, 39, had an undetected infection at the time of Lottie's birth, which sent her daughter's heart rate into the two hundreds. Within six hours Abbie had gone from "normal" to being rushed into theatre and having her tiny daughter hooked up to life-support machines.‌Speaking to the ECHO, Abbie, from Gateacre, said: "Lottie was born 34 weeks early because I had a strep A infection in my uterus. The morning before the day she was born I had developed a temperature, I