Gold Coast mum loses baby after contracting common UTI.

After being told by doctors she would never be able to carry another child, Gold Coast mum Jamie-Lee Grove was overjoyed to discover she was pregnant.

But tragically, her dream of becoming a mum for a second time ended because of a simple urinary tract infection.

The 27-year-old, who lives on the Gold Coast with her eight-year-old daughter, was told she couldn’t have another child after her pelvis was crushed in a car accident seven years ago.

“When I found out I was pregnant I was so emotional,” she told Kidspot.

“It was such a surprise, and so exciting.”

Groves began preparing like any other excited mum-to-be, posting pictures of her bump and ultrasounds on Facebook and picking a name, Amelia-Rose.

Jamie-Lee Groves wad told she'd never fall pregnant. Source: Facebook

Just shy of 26 weeks, she began feeling what she thought were 'contractions'.

She knew something was wrong but was turned away from her local hospital.

"I knew something was wrong, but they wouldn't listen," she said.

Unconvinced, but with no other option, Groves went home where almost immediately her waters broke.

She rushed back to the hospital where doctors discovered she had a urinary tract infection.

Shortly afterwards they found there was almost no fluid left around her little girl.

"She was starting to get sick and she was making me sick," Groves said.

"They induced my labour and we talked about whether or not we would resuscitate her if it came to that ---and we agreed we would. But she stopped breathing before I gave my last push."

"They put her on my chest and I looked at my beautiful girl. She wasn't breathing but she was perfect." Source: Facebook

When she was handed her daughter's tiny body, the first question was, "is she dead?"

"Everyone turned to me with these sad eyes," she said.

"They put her on my chest and I looked at my beautiful girl. She wasn't breathing but she was perfect."

Jamie-Lee posted a tribute to her daughter on her Facebook page:

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are incredibly common, particularly among pregnant women.

Symptoms include burning or pain while urinating, frequent trips to the bathroom and cloudy or foul-smelling urine.

Alarmingly, many pregnant women are asymptomatic and Groves said she'd felt nothing.

"No one told me that a urinary tract infection could have such a devastating effect," she said.

In Australian UTIs aren't regularly screened for in pregnant women and very few people are aware they're linked with pre-term death.

"I just hope other women read this and become more aware of the dangers,” says Jamie-Lee. “If you feel like something is wrong, insist that your doctors listen to you. If I can save one other parent going through what I did with losing Amelia, then at least that’s something.

"Finding out I was pregnant had been a dream come true and then it was ripped away."