Parents of Mason Haevecker, 2, wake up to find he had stopped breathing

Toddler’s little life cut short by lengthy cardiac arrest has spent his final moments with his family.

Little Mason Haevecker has spent his final moments with his family being cuddled in bed.

Bahrs Scrub couple Renee Bell, 33, said Adam Haevecker, 34, checked on their two-year-old son about 1.30am Tuesday and found he had stopped breathing.

“Adam woke me and said he’s not breathing and I said, ‘It can’t be, it can’t be and I broke down in tears,” Miss Bell said.

“I just couldn’t do it, I couldn’t focus.

“I was just a mess.”

Miss Bell said Mason’s siblings, Paige, 9, Addison, 6, and Ava, 5, all climbed into bed together to cuddle their baby brother.

“We woke all the kids up and they were all crying,” she said.

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Mason was diagnosed with life-threatening pulmonary hypertension at 8-weeks-old.

He underwent heart surgery at 9-weeks-old at what is now called the Queensland Children’s Hospital in Brisbane.

Mason Haevecker suffered from a 12-minute cardiac arrest when he was three months old. He turned two in February, but passed away on April 16. His father was also diagnosed with Cancer. A Go Fund Me has been started for the family. Picture: Mason's Journey Facebook page.

By three months old, Mason had to go back into surgery to drain fluid that had built up around his heart, but instead, the baby suffered a 12-minute cardiac arrest while being put under anaesthetic.

Mason sustained a severe brain injury from the cardiac arrest, which rendered him blind, deaf and unable to walk or feed himself.

The Haevecker family of Bahrs Scrub, in Logan give Mason, 2, some final cuddles in bed after waking to find him not breathing. Picture: Mason's Journey/Facebook

The toddler, who was originally not expected to live for more than two weeks after suffering the brain injury, defeated medical expectations and reached his second birthday in February.

He had spent his life in and out of what is now called the Queensland Children’s Hospital.

The day before Mason was born at the Logan Hospital, Mr Haevecker was diagnosed with Melanoma and is still undergoing treatment.

Miss Bell said the family had spent some time at Chermside’s Hummingbird House – Queensland’s only children’s hospice - in recent weeks after being told in March Mason was unlikely to survive for much longer.

“The last week we were at Hummingbird House and did a lot of memory making,” she said.

“We had phots taken, did some hand paintings as a family … and hope to be getting hand moulds done of our family today.”

Addison, 6, Mason, 2, Ava, 5 and Paige, 9, say goodbye to their baby brother, Mason. Picture: Mason's Journey/Facebook

Miss Bell said her youngest son had been coughing a lot during his last few days.

She wrote on Mason’s Journey Facebook page that he was a “little fighter.”

“Mason went down for his sleep last night not feeling the best. You could tell something wasn’t right,” she wrote.

Miss Bell said Mason enjoyed one final bubble bath, his favourite thing.

“Mason was our little fighter and fought until the very end,” she wrote.

“Mason fought all the battles that were thrown at him head on and never gave up, instead said is that all you got and time after time pulled through showing us all how strong he is! (sic).”

After seeing what the family had gone through, Shelley Stoneman-Mason started a Go Fund me account with the hope of raising $20,000 to try to help with some of the family’s expenses.

Funeral arrangements are yet to be made.