*A 25-year-old Detroit mother of two died shortly after giving birth to a daughter, leaving family members shocked and having to raise her two young girls without their mom, reports Detroit’s Fox 2 news.
“I did not expect to get a call saying that my baby passed away,” said Katina Ponder, the mother of Alona White, who spent just an hour with her newborn, Ari, before passing away. “She was 25, perfectly healthy, I just don’t know what went wrong.”
Ponder says Alona and the child’s father, Derrick, brought their 2-year-old daughter Aleah to her house on March 7th, so they could go to Ascension St. John Moross for a C-section.
“She hugged me – she smiled – she was excited,” Ponder said. “We went from being joyful to devastated.”
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Ari was born that afternoon and taken to the NICU. Alona took a photo a few hours after her C-section, and was later able to nurse Ari. But then Alona mentioned having a headache and had soon become unresponsive.
“She went down for a CT scan and that’s when they saw like a really large massive bleeding on the left side of her brain,” Ponder said.
Alona underwent an emergency craniotomy and was in the ICU for five days before she died.
“She only really got like an hour to spend with her – it’s just so – it’s so unfair that she was robbed of life like that – I just don’t understand what happened,” Ponder said.
Alona’s 2-year-old, Aleah, doesn’t understand why her mother is gone.
“Aleah and her had a bond like – out of this world – and she’s been asking for her mommy,” Ponder said.
Ponder says she’s still waiting on autopsy results to determine the exact cause of death, and is grateful for the GoFundMe donations that will help pay for her funeral on Thursday. Additional donations will go toward raising her two daughters left behind.
“It’s no amount of money that will bring her back and for these babies to live without their mother – no amount of money,” she said.
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