How strangers helped a baby hear his mother’s lullabies after she died in childbirth

It was supposed to be happiest day of Jared Buhanan-Decker’s life but instead, he said, it ended up being the worst when his wife died unexpectedly from childbirth complications 4 months ago in St. George, Utah.

Their son James Francis Buhanan-Decker was born on June 16 via an emergency C-section. His mother died during childbirth but, with the help of strangers, Francis has had the chance to hear her voice.

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Since then, Jared said he’s been grieving by looking through her old mementos, including recordings of six songs she wrote in the past.

“Baby don’t worry about a thing. I’ll be okay, I’ll be alright,” Sharry recorded in one of her never-before-heard songs.  

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Jared said he found the songs in a format that he couldn’t convert so he went to Reddit and asked for help. He posted that his life had “been hell” and that all he wanted was to “be able to hear her voice again.”

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Within hours, a flood of strangers from around the world replied saying they could take care of it.

“I remember one of the first ones a guy was just like, ‘I’ll have this done within an hour,'” Buhanan-Decker told CBS.

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Some professional music artists even volunteered to help create a mix of the music.

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Jared, 33, and wife wife Sharry, 29, were together for almost 12 years.

CBS affiliate KUTV reports say Sharry died from an amniotic fluid embolism, a rare childbirth emergency in which the fluid that surrounds the baby in the uterus enters a mother’s blood stream.

“The day that was supposed to be the happiest days of our lives ended up being the worst day of my life,” Jared told CBS.

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Now, almost every night, Jared told the station he finds comfort in rocking his little baby while listening to his mom sing to him.