A funeral was held Tuesday for a 26-year-old mom and her 5-day-old baby in Milford. 
 
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 Domingos Fraga’s wife Liz died after an emergency C-section at Milford Hospital. Fraga said his wife bled out as she was being airlifted to UMass. 
 
 
 
 Their daughter, Juliet, was born, but took in too much blood during birth. Juliet lived just five days. 
 
 
 
 “I got to hold her and read to her every night,” Fragas said. “They were meant to be together. Liz wanted to hold her.” 
 
 
 
 At the wake, Fraga’s family learned his sister, Melinda, of Fall River, died from advanced cervical cancer. On Sunday, his 91-year-old grandmother had a stroke. 
 
 
 
 “All my family is being taken away,” Maria Fraga, Domingos’ mother, said. “It’s not fair.” 
 
 
 
 Domingos Fraga’s longtime friend, Tiago Pereira, started a GoFundMe page for extra support. “You’re already going through the whole emotional burden, and on top of it a financial one, I couldn’t see my best friend going through that,” Pereira said. 
 
 
 
 Domingos Fraga’s wife had zero complications with her pregnancy, and he’s trying to accept it all. “I truly believe Liz gave Juliet to my sister,” Domingos Fraga said with tears in his eyes. 
 
 
 
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 For Domingos Fraga, the excitement of becoming a father has quickly turned into a sprawling family-wide tragedy. 
 
 On May 6, Fraga’s pregnant wife Liz died at age 26 after undergoing an emergency C-section. The Milford couple had been married for less than five months, according to her obituary. 
 
 “It goes from being mad, to being numb, to just bawling every night knowing she’s not there,” Fraga told WCVB. 
 
 Their newborn daughter Juliet followed Liz soon after, and died at five days old. 
 
 “I got to hold her. I read to her every night,” Fraga said. “They were meant to be together. She loved that baby.” 
 
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 A funeral for the mother and infant was held in Foxborough on Tuesday, and the mourning compounded from there. At the wake, Fraga learned that his sister Melinda, a mother of two, had died of cervical cancer on Monday, WCVB reports. She was 42. 
 
 More tragedy followed, as his 91-year-old grandmother had a stroke on Sunday, WCVB reports. 
 
 A GoFundMe page made for Fraga had raised more than $33,000 from friends and strangers moved by the story. 
 
 “Domingos, you aren’t alone,” the page’s description reads. “Keeping looking for the light even when things look its darkest. We’ve all got your back.” 
 
 In a comment on the page, Fraga wrote that he had lost “my soulmate, my best friend, and my amazingly [strong] daughter.” 
 
 “[T]his has been the most [strenuous] months of my life and all I can do is what Liz would want for me to do in this situation. I thank you all for your help,” he wrote. 

 When Domingos found out that his big sister Melinda had cancer his world shattered. She was like a second mother, a best friend to him. Instead of asking, why is this happening? He asked, how could he provide a helping hand to his family? At this point he already had a lot on his mind, being newly engaged and an expecting father. He pulled multiple shifts at work and spent time helping his niece and nephew with their homework and just being there for them when their mother was going through cancer treatment. Domingos was always looking forward to being a father, a family man. He married the love of his life 12/31/15.Throughout his wife's pregnancy Domingos was worried about losing his sister before she got a chance to meet his daughter and continuing to be in the most important moments of his life. The due date arrived on May 6, 2016, Domingos called all his friends and family to notify them that the baby was coming. He was full of joy, his wife was about to make his dreams come true, he was going to be a father. A day that he dreamed about turned into a nightmare. His wife Liz had complications during the delivery and lost her life giving birth to their beautiful daughter. Juliet's time in this world was brief but she was loved so much. She passed on 5/11/2016.He would never ask for money, and be more inclined to give you money rather than take any. But he's not asking, we are. He's already emotionally drowning with all this bad news and the last thing we would want for him is to drown in debt.Whatever you could donate would be huge in helping Domingos with the funeral expenses or medical bills.
– A Massachusetts man went from extreme elation to utter heartache in the span of just a few moments when his wife of five months, Liz, who'd had a healthy pregnancy without any complications, had to undergo an emergency C-section, lost too much blood, and died, reports the Boston Globe. But his nightmare had only just begun. Domingos Fraga spent the next days holding and reading to his newborn, Juliet, but she died just five days later (he says she took in too much blood at birth). Then, at his wife and daughter's wake, the family received news that Fraga's sister had died of cervical cancer, leaving two children behind. A few days later, his grandmother suffered a stroke. "It goes from being mad, to being numb, to just bawling every night knowing she’s not there," Fraga tells WCVB. Barely able to speak through his tears, he is still trying to hold onto something positive. "I got to hold her and read to her every night," he says. "They were meant to be together. Liz wanted to hold her." A friend who set up a GoFundMe page for Fragas writes that he's the last person who would ask for money. "But he's not asking, we are. He's already emotionally drowning with all this bad news and the last thing we would want for him is to drown in debt." As of this writing, more than 900 people have donated more than $47,000. (This father lost his wife just days after she delivered triplets.)