A mother has shared the heartbreaking moment her 4-week-old ‘loving baby girl’ took her last breath in her arms.

When baby Hattie Elliot was born 10 weeks early, she seemed healthy like her twin brother Hamish.

However, she couldn’t drink milk from her bottle and had to be fed through a tube.

The family were warned that the longer little Hattie depended on the tube at The Royal Derby Hospital, the higher chance she would have of developing blood poisoning.

Four-week-old Hattie contracted aggressive sepsis and she passed away only six hours later.

Speaking to The Derby Telegraph, Hattie’s grieving mother Allison said: “She was a wriggly little thing. She absolutely loved her dad.

“The really sad thing is the day she contracted sepsis it was the most she’d ever taken of the milk. We got so excited.”

Alison said she noticed something was wrong when she held her baby outside her incubator.

“I read her stories and sang to her and she threw up on me,” she said.

“She was getting a bit restless and looking a bit grey, so I said to a nurse I think I want to put her back into the incubator, she didn’t look a nice color.”

Medics then started Hattie on antibiotics and told the family to go home, saying they would call if something happened.

“We were just about to go to bed. About 11pm we got a phone call that said: ‘You need to come in now, we need a blood transfusion.’

“They’d resuscitated her a couple of times and she’d responded. They took some blood from me and it worked for a little bit.

“The doctors were so amazing. They said: ‘This is what’s happening, but it doesn’t look good. As long as you want us to try, we’ll keep trying.’

“I just didn’t want her to be in pain anymore.”

Doctors resuscitated baby Hattie five times before the family decided to finally stop their attempts, saying their little one had suffered enough.

“I said to my husband: ‘I think enough’s enough.’ I didn’t want her (to be in) pain in her last minutes.”

Alison also praised the staff at the Royal Derby Hospital and thanked them for their help.

“They were really good. They brought my son down and it was the first time we could hold both their hands at the same time,” she said.

“They kept us informed. They let us get to the cot and hold her hand and talk to her. And then we made the decision that enough was enough.

“She got to have her last breaths in my arms.”

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