WHEN Tammi Walker found out she was expecting a baby with her partner Steven Scobie, she was delighted.
The couple – who had been together 18 months – had just moved into a new home in March and were looking forward to their new chapter together.
But on 29 March, life for Tammi changed forever when Steve, 38, collapsed in front of her at their home in Fife, the Daily Record reports.
The expectant mum, 22, frantically called an ambulance – but despite arriving in minutes, there was nothing paramedics could do to save Steve.
And in a tragic turn of events, Tammi – who was eight weeks pregnant at the time -lost their baby just one day after his funeral in April.
As a result of the coronavirus crisis, Tammi was unable to have a scan before the two month mark – but her and Steve had had appointments with midwives in lockdown.
She said: "It started to feel like there was something wrong. They gave me a date for a scan and that’s when they told me there was a baby but they couldn’t find a heartbeat."
Although Tammi tried to hold out hope that stress was affecting her baby's heartbeat, doctors told her that she'd sadly miscarried – but tried to reassure her it would have happened regardless of what happened to Steve.
She added: "I was not able to process it at all. I could not quite take in what the doctors were saying to me.”
After losing Steve, Tammi moved back in with her mum and dad – but said lockdown made the loss even more difficult as she couldn't surround herself with friends and family.
Now Tammi is determined to honour Steve's memory by "living life to the full".
We had just moved into our own house three weeks before when he passed away. Everything is still quite raw.
In September, Tammi is embarking on a 14-mile sponsored walk with her sister Bethany to raise money for the Scottish Ambulance Service and two of Steve's favourite places to fish – Goldenloch Fishery and Newton Trout Fishery.
She added: "Goldenloch was where he taught me how to fish, I now do that with his brother to try and keep it going.
"He loved to be outside. We are also getting a memorial bench in his honour at his favourite fishery."
Tammi is full of praise for the ambulance service – who never once left her alone on the day Steve died and did everything they could to save him.
"This made me think a lot about how paramedics have to face these awful, traumatic experiences everyday and they have to deliver that devastating news to so many people," she said. "It takes a strong person to be able to do that almost daily, I’ll always be hugely thankful to our ambulance service for the way they dealt with everything that day."
At the funeral, the family raised money for the British Heart Foundation and Tammi penned a heartbreaking poem describing Steve as her "forever guy".
You can donate to Tammi's GoFundMe page here.
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