(Jamaica Star) It has been a few days since Paulette Hinds tragically lost her daughter, 33-year-old Rose Marie Gayle, and her granddaughter.
Gayle died at the Port Antonio Hospital in Portland, three hours after giving birth on Saturday, January 30. Hinds was looking forward to meet the addition to their family but the double loss has left her gutted.
“This is the worse feeling, I’m telling you,” said a distraught Hinds. “She have a book here that she write down the name of her baby and draw up a family tree with me, her father, the baby and her two other children. Every time I open it my heart bleed.”
THIRD CHILD
Gayle, a mother of two, ages 10 and 16, was expecting her third child and went in for delivery on Saturday morning. Family members say they were told the baby was a stillborn. They said Gayle died approximately 9:30 a.m.
“Everybody at a loss because we still can’t understand. Right now me just trust God to keep me alive. I drink a cup of tea every now and then because I can’t eat any food, me appetite gone,” said Hinds. She told THE STAR that Gayle, her fourth of nine children, was humble and caring.
“She was very quiet, understanding and she barely talks, and if is one thing she make sure is that I’m fine. Even when she don’t have anything to give me she call and check up on me,” she said. Gayle celebrated her birthday on January 19.
“I spoke to her on her birthday and I was saying I want you have the baby on your birthday, and she a say ‘no sis, me cyah manage so much pain on my special day’,” said her sister, Carlene Smith, 31. “Me never expect this none at all because she was looking forward to have her baby and reunite with her other kids and family. I’m feeling really weak and depressed about the situation because she and the baby gone, so we are left with nothing.”
The reality has not set in for Gayle’s children either; they are residing with other relatives in Windsor Forest, Portland. The family is awaiting autopsy results which they believe will bring some sort of closure.
