Just before 2:40 on Tuesday morning, Christian music artist Nathan Johnson and his wife Megan welcomed their first child Eilee Kate.

Still in her hospital bed, Megan Johnson held, fed and burped their new daughter. Giddy with excitement, the musician said he couldn’t sleep at all that night.

Right after Eilee was born, the new father sent pictures of his wife and daughter celebrating the newly expanded family to fellow Christian artist Josh Wilson, who he had been performing with days before. But the celebration took a tragic turn when Megan started having complications later Tuesday morning. Wilson received a text message from his friend, asking for prayers.

“Of course we didn’t know what it meant, so we stopped what we were doing and just prayed.” Wilson said.

But in a few hours, by 11 a.m., the new mother had passed away from pregnancy-related complications. Eilee was a little over 8 hours old. Doctors are unclear what caused her death, Wilson said.

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