The last thing a pregnant mother saw before taking her last dying breath was the sight of her twins being born, her heartbroken father has revealed.
Ashton Hughes, who was killed in a car crash while leaving a prenatal doctor's appointment in South Carolina Tuesday, was able to deliver her babies — a boy and a girl — before succumbing to her injuries.
"That's the best part about this," her father, Eric Hughes, told the State. "I'm thankful for them being here, but totally saddened by her being gone."
The 19-year-old, who was 29 weeks pregnant, was rushed to Spartanburg Regional Hospital where she underwent an emergency cesarean-section.
It's the same hospital the young mother was born at, her father said.
Miraculously, Ashton's oldest 11-month-old daughter who was with her in the head-on collision escaped the crash largely uninjured.
In Ashton's last words she asked about her daughter, Dixie Faith Jennings. She also told doctors, "take care of me, take care of my babies," they shared with her despondent parents during a moving gathering at the hospital Friday, Fox Carolina reported.
Later that afternoon, the granddad asked for prayers in an emotional Facebook post that described his newborn grandson, Brantley Wayne Jennings, as "not doing so good."
"The status on my granddaughter," Ashton Gailann Jennings, "is that she is doing well and still stable."
The little girl was reportedly born weighing a mere 2 pounds, 12 ounces while her brother was born weighing 3 pounds, 2 ounces.
They're expected to remain in the hospital's intensive care unit for the next seven or eight weeks.
The cause of the two-car crash, which involved no other injuries, is still under investigation.
