Hi everyone.
I'm sorry this might be a bit of a long explanation, I'm wondering if anyone has sued the NHS before as my family are really pushing this on me and I'm not sure whether to go through with this or not, or even where to begin.
I went in to the hospital at 41 weeks as I hadn't felt my son move the entire day. Arrived around 7pm.
Got admitted to the labour ward, said we could choose to be induced if we wanted to, or could go home, as they were fine with his heartrate. I knew something was wrong, so we decided to be induced, which literally went against everything we wanted.
I had a pessary inserted at 11pm, had such a bad reaction they had to remove it at 12am because my body had started contracting continuously - they even checked my room spray to see if any oils in it could stimulate contractions! His heartrate kept dropping down, coming back up, dropping down again. At 1pm they decided to break my waters. It was thick and gooey, hardly any in there and I was only dilated to 1cm despite the (literally) continuous contractions. I actually got no break in between, as soon as one ended another was already starting and his heart rate kept dropping, sometimes down to 80.
Things get a bit hazy here but I know I was monitored on the bed with no pain relief, continuously contracting until 3:30 when something happened that made them decide i needed an emergency c-section.
By 4:03am he was born, didn't make a sound for about a minute but his APGAR was 9. Cried, black stuff that was in his lungs (meconium we think) coughed up and suctioned out and all seemed okay.
I was taken to the recovery room and then by 6am i was wheeled on to the ward.
This is where things take a turn for the worse really. I had him for an hour on my own before they came and took him away from me based on some blood results. Left alone without my baby, spinal block still made me completely numb so I couldn't even move. A lot then happened that we weren't told about properly, fast forward to that evening and my son starts have seizures. That night he stopped breathing twice. Kept having seizures the next day and couldn't control his body or stop it from shaking. His organs showed damage like his kidneys and liver and he was badly jaundiced. We had to stay there a week while they did 4 lumbar punctures, he was on adult dose antibiotics incase he had sepsis and it was honestly the worst week of my entire life.
Long story short, an MRI revealed he has two patches of damage to his brain because the cord was tangled so tightly around his waist. The reason he wasn't moving was because every time he did his oxygen supply was cut off, and the contractions I was having were constantly starving him of oxygen and I didn't dilate because his head was nowhere near my cervix.
My family and friends all want to sue the hospital and the hospital itself is doing the highest level report in to his birth and submitting it the the CCG to make sure it never happens to anyone else and to see what lessons they can learn from my experience.
Has anyone else had a birth like this or sued a hospital?
Thank you
Please or to access all these features
Please
or
to access all these features
Get updates on how your baby develops, your body changes, and what you can expect during each week of your pregnancy by signing up to the Mumsnet Pregnancy Newsletters.
Childbirth
Suing the hospital - Brain Damage
45 replies
jawjee · 07/11/2018 14:37
OP posts:
Don’t want to miss threads like this?
Weekly
Sign up to our weekly round up and get all the best threads sent straight to your inbox!
Log in to update your newsletter preferences.
You've subscribed!
Please create an account
To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.