A heartbroken mum whose three-year-old son died from sudden infant death syndrome has revealed his last words to her were: “Goodnight, I love you.”Devastated Jasmine Shortland remembers the night a couple of weeks ago when her “bright and smiling” son Bryan-Andrew Lock was put to bed, never dreaming they could have the tragic last words they shared.Now she says she is living every parent’s worst nightmare, saying: “I just can’t believe he’s gone.” The 23-year-old mum of two says she has to keep everything together for the sake of her young family and partner Josh Westcott, 20.
WIth his brothers
With his baby brother Ivan
Debbie says his last words were: “Goodnight Nanny, I love you.”
Jasmine recalls: “The next morning mum told me she heard Austin had woken up and she thought that was strange because Bryan always woke up first.
“She went in the bedroom and she could see he’d gone. “She screamed to David and he rushed in and started doing everything he could. “He was trying to do mouth-to-mouth, but Bryan’s little jaw had locked.” A paramedic arrived minutes after Mrs Lock dialled 999. “He was rushed to hospital but the paramedics were pretty clear that his heart had stopped beating,” she told Somerset Live.
A medical team at Yeovil Hospital fought to try and save the youngster but he sadly died.”I just broke down when they told us he’d gone,” she says. “Josh and I collapsed on the floor and I was just screaming.”You just can’t explain to people what it feels like – I have to go on because of the other two, but it’s like a huge hole where something’s missing.”The heartbroken couple have now set up a GoFundMe page to try and raise funds for the tot’s funeral on September 1.
Sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, is the sudden, unexpected and unexplained death of an apparently healthy baby.