Pregnant Grenfell Tower survivor lost her baby hours after the blaze

‘We lost a member of the family who didn’t even get to experience fresh air,’ Marcio Gomes said

The Gomes couple had already picked out the name Logan Isaac for their unborn son

A married couple who escaped the Grenfell Tower fire from the 21st floor have said they lost their unborn son just two months before he was due after the disaster.

Marcio and Andreia Gomes made headlines after escaping from the high-rise block, with Marcio being called a hero after turning back into the inferno to rescue his eldest daughter.

Now, the couple has told The Telegraph their unborn baby was delivered stillborn hours after the incident, while his mother lay unconscious in an induced coma.

Mr Gomes, 38, described the heartbreaking experience of learning that the poisonous fumes from the blaze had claimed the life of the baby the couple had been expecting – and had already chosen a name for.

The father said his family’s hopes of a life with baby Logan Isaac were cut short when doctors told him the baby’s heart had stopped.

Officials have confirmed 80 deaths in the fire, but that number could rise (PA)

“My wife gave birth that night while she was in an induced coma so she didn’t know at the time. At 11.03 in the evening my baby was born.

“I was holding him, he looked peaceful, like a baby that was just sleeping. I wanted to be there with him, but he had already died.”

Mr Gomes, an IT manager at Ofsted who had lived in Grenfell Tower with his family for 10 years, then had the painful duty of explaining to his wife what had happened when she regained consciousness.

“I had to. We spoke about it and I explained. It was very emotional,” he said.

“At first she didn’t want to talk about it and she said she didn’t want to see the baby. But I know my wife, the hospital were really good at keeping the baby there for us.

“The next day she was very happy to see the baby. She didn’t want the baby to go away.”

Mr Gomes told The Telegraph the couple’s two daughters, Megan, 10, and Luana, 12, had been excited about meeting their new baby brother.

“The girls already had plans made, they were already planning things like, ‘Logan can sleep with me in my bed’, and what they were going to do, so this has hit them quite hard as well,” he said.

Mr Gomes said he was woken up at around 2am by a neighbour banging on the family’s door as fire began to consume the tower block.

He phoned the fire brigade repeatedly, asking for help and explaining that his wife was seven months pregnant and that both his wife and youngest daughter were asthmatic.

The family was instructed to stay put – but when flames began to burn through Mr Gomes’s bedroom, the father realised he needed to get his family out of the building.

He rushed his family down the stairs, but halfway down, when he realised his eldest daughter was no longer in front of him, Mr Gomes turned around and ran back up, finding Luana unconscious on the floor after collapsing from smoke inhalation.

The family was rushed to hospital, where both Andreia and Luana were put in induced comas and treated for smoke inhalation.

Mr Gomes said his family is planning on holding a funeral for Logan Isaac once an autopsy could be completed.

“It is a bit of an awkward feeling – it could have been so much worse, we understand that,” he said.

“But at the same time we lost a member of the family who didn’t even get to experience fresh air, so it is a very traumatic time.”