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 KALAMAZOO, MI -- Three hours after she had her son, Crystal Matrau-Belt still hadn't seen her fiance or her mother in the sea of other family members who had come to meet the new baby. and that he would come up shortly and that he loved me and all that and stuff," Matrau-Belt recalled of her conversation with Skokan when she was at the hospital. "My dad said, 'Honey, that's what we need to talk to you about.' I just all of a sudden had a sinking feeling something was wrong. Emil Skokan III, Matrau-Belt's fiance, had been driving himself and Matrau-Belt's mother, Peggy Nichols, to the hospital for the birth of his son just before 4 p.m. Saturday, when he lost control of the car on a stretch of South 26th Street near Cork Street in Comstock Township. That was the last time she heard from her fiance. Once she was out of recovery, her aunt took Jeremiah out of the room and Matrau-Belt questioned where her fiance and mother were. Matrau-Belt and Skokan had spent her whole pregnancy disagreeing on the name for their son. While she wanted to wait for her fiance, Matrau-Belt said her extended family, including her stepfather and stepmother were there to help her during the delivery. Speed a factor 
 
 Authorities have said speed was a factor in Saturday's crash that killed Skokan and Nichols. "To lose my fiancé and my mom … and welcoming my son in my life, it's hard to balance that all," she told ABC News. Soon, Matrau-Belt will celebrate Jeremiah's first Christmas without those loved ones. You don’t know when things are going to happen, especially if you’re on the way to the birth of your child and grandchild. The last thing I got from Emil was 'I love you babe and I'll be up there soon.'
– Emil Skokan III was every bit the doting father-to-be when his fiancee texted him to say she would soon undergo a C-section. "He said, 'Do you need anything?' and that he would come up shortly and that he loved me," Crystal Matrau-Belt, 24, tells ABC News. "It was the last time I talked to him." As Skokan, 34, rushed to Bronson Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo, Mich., on Saturday with Matrau-Belt's mother, Peggy Nichols, he lost control of his vehicle and hit a tree, reports MLive. Both Skokan and Nichols, 53, were killed; police say speed was a factor. Other family members, including Matrau-Belt's stepmother, helped her welcome a baby boy, Jeremiah, before breaking the news. "To have a child but then have two things ripped out of my life, it's just really hard to deal with and even process," the new mom says. "It's like happy and the most heartbreaking thing." Matrau-Belt says both her fiance and mom were so excited to meet Jeremiah. "Their main focus was being able to be here because I didn't want them to miss anything," she says. While Nichols "had big plans to take him to the zoo, to Disney World," Skokan had spent the previous day readying the couple's house for Jeremiah's arrival. He "was trying to do everything right," says Matrau-Belt. "He wanted to step up and make sure he was a good father to him." She now takes solace in seeing Skokan in Jeremiah. "I see Emil in him," particularly when "he gives this wrinkled up nose look" when he's annoyed. "Just to know that I have a piece of Emil, that helps a little bit." Matrau-Belt says she doesn't "really know what to do with myself," but she wants to tell others to appreciate what they have. "You've got to be able to slow down and look at every part of life and cherish it." (Two brothers had babies on the same day, at the same hospital.)