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A mum has tragically died without getting to hold her baby for the first time. ‌

Her devastated husband has described his wife as a 'a beautiful soul' after the first-time mum died shortly after giving birth. ‌

The young 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 suffered a major obstetric bleed just hours after her first child Antony was born via caesarean section at Luton and Dunstable University Hospital.

The 32-year-old 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 Valentines Day 2023. ‌

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