Tragic twist in deaths of twin sisters who passed away in bed next to mum
Twin sisters who died while sleeping in bed next to their mother were reportedly “miracle babies”, according to a close friend of the family.
Violet and Indiana passed away after being found unconscious in bed with blankets covering them in their home in Brisbane.
The twin sisters had been born just six weeks earlier.
'They did want to extend their family and it was probably going to be the last throw of the dice for them,' family friend Kieran Garratt told The Courier Mail.
The father is said to be beside himself with grief as his two-year-old son who was diagnosed with autism doesn’t understand that the babies are gone.
“We're in a very dark place. But we have to keep going for our other children. Our son is walking around the house looking for the babies. He loved them so much,” the father said, according to The Courier Mail.
Garratt confirmed this to MSN.
“The boy has been pretty hurt by it,” he said.
“Being autistic he doesn't have a line of communication, if you like.
“He was always touching them very gently and, in some ways, he was more connected to them than his bigger sister.”
The couple also have an older daughter who is almost five, who knows about what happened to her siblings, but it hasn’t sunk in yet.
“We told her the truth. We didn't say they had fallen asleep… we told her they died. She's on the trampoline calling out to me to come and jump with her. She's saying, 'Daddy come play with me'', but I just can't. I say, '’sweet girl, I can't'’,” he said.
The twin’s grandfather told The Daily Mail that the family are struggling to cope.
“It's every parent's worst nightmare what they are facing... they've been through hell,” he said.
Friends of the couple have created a GoFundMe page to ease the financial burden on the family, as they are planning to move out of the place they’ve called home for two years. The appeal has raised more than $22,000 in the six days since it’s been launched.
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