Mismanagement of labour meant my daughter was born starved of oxygen and brain damaged. My poor little girl was taken straight to SCBU.
She was fed through a tube, abd started to have fits, doctors where pyzzled as to the problem, her umbilcal cord was taken off, at 2 days old, and a lumbar puncture was performed.
We where taken in ambulance with a midwife accompanying us as I was 4 days post birth to the Brompton hospital where she was placed in an isolation room on her own, I had to stay with her, no privisions made for me as a mum, meals etc,I lived on biscuits as I had no money, my husband and family where 70 miles away. Tests discovered I at some point had contracted rubella during pregnancy.
After 3 weeks we where sent back to our own hospital SCBU, where I started to wonder if she was brain damaged, mums intuition?, this was confirmed a week later, my poor little girl lived another 2 weeks never coming home or meeting family she died 3rd November 1978 aged 7 weeks.
My pregnancy had been quite fraught with my parents becoming ill, and bleeding for me, C was born at 39weeks a healthy 7lb10oz, post mortem showed her brain starved of oxygen at birth.
My dad died 6 weeks later, we believe this hastened his condition.
Many years later during the scandal concerning tissue samples taken and retained without permission, we found that C's had been retained, aafter discussion we decided to let them remain as they where used for teaching.