I have 16 photos of my son’s last day – I’m sharing one to stop other parents facing our agony

A HEARTBROKEN mum whose son died suddenly has shared one of the last photos taken of him.

Little Levi passed away in June 2018 when the family were on holiday.

The three-year-old had been playing in the pool all day, but later that evening he was found in the water.

His mum is now sharing a photo of Levi, in a life jacket in the pool, smiling, in order to raise awareness of water safety for children.

Posting on the Instagram page the mum said: "One moment, he was sitting on the couch wearing khaki shorts, in a room filled with people. And the next, I found him in the pool."

She said she thought she had been doing 'everything right' when it came to water safety.

"I have 16 photos of what would be my son’s final day of life, and 14 of those, he is wearing a life jacket or a puddle jumper.

"I did not understand that children aged 1 to 4 are at the highest risk of drowning and that they most often drown when they reach water during a time they are not supposed to be swimming", she said.

The mum said the family had been on holiday and that she never let her children out of her sight when they were around water.

The family had finished in the pool for the day and the mum said that Levi had surrounded by friends while they had been cleaning up after their dinner.

She said: "He somehow managed to slip out of a room filled with people, out of heavy doors, down a flight of stairs and reach the water, all in just a moment.

"Even with six physicians on our trip, including my own anesthesiologist husband, Levi was unable to be saved.

"We later learned that a toddler can drown in as little as 30 seconds because they do not know to hold their breath, there is no struggle, and their heads cause them to be top-heavy near water."

After their horrible ordeal, the family is now raising awareness of water safety, and the mum said that drowning is preventable.