Senior midwife Donna Ockenden investigated stillbirths, neonatal and maternal deaths, and babies or mothers who suffered brain damage and other injuries
‘Truly horrific’: the stories of five people affected by the NHS maternity scandal
In this report by the Guardian’s social affairs correspondent, Jessica Murray, five families recount the devastating consequences of failures in maternity care at Nottingham university hospitals NHS trust.
I went into labour and I was having contractions, and for six days, I was basically told to stay at home. I didn’t feel like I had any other choice. And then in hospital, the care was just beset by failures.
I actually said to my husband I felt like I’d be better off dead than in the situation I was in … It was truly horrific. When they eventually called the emergency C-section and opened me up, the smell of infection filled the room and that’s when they realised that Wynter was stuck in my pelvis. All the warning signs of infection were there.
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