'Amazing' mum died days after giving birth to her first child

'Amazing' mum died days after giving birth to her first child View 4 Images

A "beautiful" first-time mum died from a catastrophic bleed on the brain just days after giving birth to her baby son who she never got to hold. Ilona Kazik, 32, suffered a major obstetric bleed just hours after her first child Antony was born via caesarean section at Luton and Dunstable University Hospital.

She had spent five years trying for a child with husband Rafal, but she tragically never got to cradle her newborn baby. Ilona, who worked in a hospital herself, was diagnosed with high blood pressure the day before giving birth on Valentine's Day 2023.

Despite medication, her condition worsened. Hours after the delivery, she complained of headaches, blurred vision and vomiting before becoming unresponsive