‘Trust the higher plan’: Yoga queen’s haunting post days before shock death

A beloved Sunshine Coast yoga queen who died after childbirth chronicled her pregnancy complications, lost her best friend only a week ago and made a haunting post just days before her tragic death.

Lauren Verona before her tragic post-birth death.

A beloved Sunshine Coast yoga queen who died following childbirth chronicled her pregnancy complications, was grieving the loss of her best friend just a week ago and made a haunting post just days before she tragically passed away.

Lauren Verona, a 42-year-old mother-of-three, died from post-birth complications after welcoming a ‘healthy, thriving baby girl’ Lucinda Lauren Elizabeth this week.

Just days before her tragic death - where she left behind husband Ryan and her two other daughters Allira and Evie - a 41-weeks-pregnant Lauren posted on her Facebook page about ‘divine timing’ and ‘trusting the higher plan’.

Lauren Verona with her husband Ryan and daughters Allira and Evie. Picture: Supplied

“These last few weeks and months if I’m to be honest have been very challenging with the countless pregnancy complications I’ve had,” she wrote on June 5.

“But I hear my own children say “divine timing” when anyone asks when the baby is coming out.

“I love that they get it.

“I love that our children reinforce our own belief systems when we quietly question it, I love that it rolls off the tongue and the statement just stands.

“So here we are 41 weeks pregnant trusting the higher plan.”

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In a tragic twist, Lauren had lost her best friend Kim Mastrowicz to cancer just one week ago.

“We travelled together for years, shared life’s highs and lows and enjoyed a soulful deep friendship,” Lauren wrote in tribute to Ms Mastrowicz on June 3.

“With news of her cancer, I invited her to move to QLD to live with my daughters and I which she did for 18 months, choosing healthy natural ways for her breast cancer to heal.

“In recent months her beautiful parents moved to QLD and nursed her daily from their home in Coolum all remaining so profoundly positive. The alternative was never an option and never discussed.”

Lauren Verona couldn’t wait to meet her third child.

Lauren said her friend passed away alongside her parents and had been eager to meet her baby.

“Now they perhaps meet in other realms while I prepare to birth,” she wrote.

“Grieving the greatest loss of my life at 40 weeks pregnant has been an experience I never imagined. I’m truly lost for words and unable to fathom that she is no longer in this physical world.”

Lauren had chronicled her pregnancy journey, sharing that she’d suffered pregnancy complications including a low lying placenta and had been ‘couch bound at 35 weeks with indescribable pelvic girdle pain’.

Lauren Verona had chronicled her pregnancy complications.

At 30 weeks pregnant she wrote: “Pelvic instability, anaemia and gestational diabetes keeping me couch bound but otherwise awesome and looking forward to birthing this angel as soon as viably possible.”

At 36 weeks Lauren was given the all clear for a natural home birth.

“Remarkably on my 36 week scan my cervix is now clear of what was a low lying placenta .5cm away,” she shared with her followers early last month.

“Even the Sonographer seemed shocked and called her senior in to confirm. The obstetrician who was about to convince me of a C section told me I was free to go home and birth naturally.”

Lauren had been given the all clear for a natural birth.

Lauren had also posted about ‘wild birth’ and ‘free birth’, her focus on meditating and had shared her positive take on the challenges saying she was ‘trusting the higher plan’.

“I’ve had a few days grieving the loss of my best friend and again, wondering why this week, why now, why couldn’t she hold out to meet my baby, but again, I’m trusting of the divine timing and trusting that Kim and my babe are perhaps spending some quality time together,” she wrote.

Lauren had only just married the love of her life - Ryan - in February this year and had posted about being ‘so grateful’ to be carrying his baby.

Lauren and Ryan had only married in February.

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