New mum has fatal heart attack after giving birth as family share heartbreaking final image

A mum tragically died from a sudden heart attack having just given birth to a child she will never meet.

The family of Amber Pendlebury has shared a heartbreaking final image of the mum who gave birth to baby Maxwell Lee while she was under general anaesthetic.

Amber was put on a life-support machine immediately after waking because she had suffered two rapid cardiac arrests, YorkshireLive reports.

A fatal heart attack happened shortly after giving birth to her son and her family has taken the brave decision to share this extraordinarily moving and heartbreaking image of the mum in her last moments of life.

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Her mum Vida Pendlebury-Atherton, 71, said she had been living through a “nightmare” following the tragic news of her daughter's death in early February.

Vida said days earlier Amber had been very positive about her pregnancy and had “prepared everything” for the arrival of her third child.

But just after tiny Maxwell Lee was born, Amber cried out “I can’t breathe” and collapsed, before medics frantically whisked her away for emergency treatment.

Previously healthy Amber finally passed away on February 1, with her grief-stricken mother still shocked at the nature and speed of her shocking death.

Vida said: “I just feel like it’s a nightmare and I’m going to wake up at some point. It’s so, so sad.”

“How can a healthy person with a healthy pregnancy go to have a baby and not come out of it?”

Vida said it had been a wonderful surprise when she first found out that Amber, from Wakefield, West Yorks., was pregnant with her partner Ben Reeder, 36, in 2021.

She said that her daughter - who already had two children, aged 13 and 18, from a