A young boy suffered a seizure in a bath and drowned while his mum wrapped birthday presents for his brother in the next room, an inquest was told.
Jayden-Jay Silvester, five, was found unresponsive on New Year’s Eve and despite the efforts of mum Lisa Johnson and paramedics, later died in hospital.
The tragedy came 34 days after the death of his father, Jason, in November, reports Stoke on Trent Live.
Lisa told proceedings earlier that day she had taken her son and his younger brother Oscar shopping for balloons ahead of Oscar’s birthday the next day.
She had planned a trip to the park later on.
Describing him as a "loving son and brother", the grieving mum said at the inquest: “Jayden-Jay came upstairs and asked if he could have a bath and he grabbed his head in pain.
"I went to the bathroom, turned on both taps and put some body wash into it. The bath was half full. I put him in the bath myself.
"I made sure he was OK...I went into the bedroom and continued wrapping presents.
"Between five and 10 minutes later I shouted Jayden-Jay to ask if he was OK and he said he was.
"I only had one present left to wrap but I'd run out of paper. His grandmother came up to bring the wrapping paper and I asked her to check on Jayden-Jay.
"I heard her scream and I ran into the bathroom, she pulled him from the bath and I started CPR and chest compressions."
A 999 operator talked Lisa through how to do CPR until emergency crews arrived and Jayden-Jay was taken to Royal Stoke University Hospital.
The inquest heard Jayden-Jay had been born at just 24-weeks-old and spent 101 days in a neonatal unit and had a history of seizures.
A post-mortem was carried out on Jayden-Jay which provided a medical cause of death as drowning secondary to seizure.
Concluding the death was due to natural causes, area coroner for Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire Emma Serrano, said: "On the balance of probabilities he had a seizure whilst in the bath and that caused him to go under the water and pass away.
"He had a history of seizures when he was younger and had a temperature.
"Sadly because he had a seizure whilst in the bath, he went in the water and he drowned."
