A YOUNG mum-to-be suddenly died after she went for a nap, just days after discovering she was pregnant. Leah Roberts was five months along when she failed to wake up after going for a lie-down. 2 Leah Roberts suddenly died after she went for a nap Credit: Media Wales 2 The 21-year-old was five months pregnant at the time of her death Credit: Media Wales The 21-year-old from Cwmbran, Wales, had only found out three days before her death that she was expecting a baby girl, who she had decided to call Leena-Rose.
On August 1, Leah, who was living with her grandparents, cut her day trip short after feeling unwell. She returned home early and told her family she planned to take a 30-minute nap to recover. A few hours later, her grandfather went to check on her and struggled to wake her.
Concerned, he told her grandmother, who immediately went to Leah’s room, realised something was wrong, pulled her off the bed and began performing CPR . "That's all it was, she just went for a nap and never woke up," family, friend Becky Davies said. Leah's mother, Martine Vaughan, rushed to the property alongside the ambulance service , air ambulance and police but despite working on her for over an hour, Leah and the baby could not be saved.
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