Hartlepool hero delivery driver continues working despite newborn baby scare

When lockdown was announced and the reality of the dangers of Covid-19 hit the UK, Hannah Groves asked her partner Scott Taylor to quit his job as a delivery driver for Morrison’s in Hartlepool to help protect their family and six-month-old daughter Molly-Rose Taylor who spent two weeks in hospital respiratory distress when she was born.

But weeks on, after the 33-year-old driver made the difficult decision to continue to work, mum-of-two Hannah says she couldn’t be prouder of all he is doing for those in need.

In October 2019, their daughter Molly was born three weeks early by emergency caesarean section.

Hannah, of Wingate, said: “When she was born she wasn’t breathing and she was effectively dead for 90 seconds before doctors were able to resuscitate her.

“She had respiratory distress which can be one of the side effects of being premature.

“She was transferred to James Cook Hospital and put on a ventilator for five days. She was in intensive care for two weeks where she was weaned off a CPAP machine.”

Molly no longer has any lung problems or any other underlying conditions but the frightening memory of seeing her newborn baby on a ventilator has made Hannah, who is also mum to seven-year-old Ruby-Ann Harvey, extra cautious.

“They’re both so little and vulnerable in their own right,” said 26-year-old Hannah. “Seeing Molly be so poorly, this virus does scare me.

“I’ve been in a situation watching my daughter on a ventilator before.

“My mam use to tell me that the hardest thing to do is normally the right thing to do. I know this was a really tough decision but I’m so proud of Scott.

“I know he worries about the kids and me but he’s putting himself in the firing line to help others.”

Scott and Hannah have been taking extra precautions to ensure the devoted dad doesn’t inadvertently walk in the virus on an item of clothing.

Scott said: “I go to work because there’s so many people that need someone like me to go to work.”

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