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Pala Negara is experiencing a devastating heartbreak.
The Balinese Australian model—who appeared on Ex on the Beach Couples: Now or Never in 2023—shared that her and Christopher Hunter‘s baby boy died just hours after she gave birth.
Their son Harmony Hunter was born on Aug. 28—20 days after his due date—at 4:27 a.m. “in the most powerful birth of our lives,” but sadly died “peacefully in our arms” at 8 p.m. that night, Negara wrote on Instagram Sept. 7.
“Creating life with the love of my life has been the most profound healing journey I could have never imagined being written into our journey,” she said. “Growing life for nearly ten months, growing our family, falling so deeply in love in a union that was always destined to be, falling in love with the life we have created for our family, birthing life, and then birthing death has been incomprehensible.”
The MTV star continued, “My body feels broken and aches for our baby, the life we grew together. I don’t think we will ever know how to move through this heartbreak.”
She explained that the team at Australia’s Lismore Hospital “worked tirelessly to save Harmony” as well as treat her for postpartum hemorrhage, a potentially life-threatening condition caused by severe bleeding after childbirth, per the Cleveland Clinic.
A team of doctors even flew in to help and “continued to spend hours trying to save our little boy,” she said.
They did not share their son’s cause of death.
As they’ve mourned their baby, Negara thanked their loved ones who have shown immense support, saying, “Our hearts sit in deep gratitude to our friends who have loved and cared for us this past week.”
In the coming days, Negara and Hunter plan to hold a memorial service for their infant on the land of the Bundjalung Nation Aboriginal people.
“We will soon lay our angel to rest on Bundjalung Country where he was born, the land that has held my family and continues to hold our family,” she wrote. “We know you will return to us again old soul, we can feel you surrounding us, our Angel.”
Hunter—a salon owner—added a touching tribute on his Instagram Story, which read, “The most perfect son a dad could ever ask for. I know you will return to us.”
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