Giving birth is about bringing a new life into the world, so death is the furthest thing on one’s mind when a newborn is on the way. So imagine how Doug must’ve felt when his wife Melanie suffered an amniotic fluid embolism and was pronounced dead while giving childbirth.
“My wife was clinically dead when they delivered my daughter.” Doug says. “My first thought was, ‘I’m a widower.’ And we’d only been married three years… They had asked us to say our goodbyes. I remember asking her vividly, ‘If you have any fight left in you, then fight!’”
