Yet another baby dies.

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A 12lb baby girl died at West Middlesex hospital three days after a fourteen hour labour. Baby was eventually delivered, blue, with forceps. Obviously a big baby but CTG traces showed it was all going wrong and husband believes his wife should have been given a CS.
What is going on?? Has the government set one of it's "targets" for reducing CS or were Bo and this little girl just the victims of inadequately trained staff.

I am not an NHS basher BTW. I was trained by the NHS, worked for the NHS, have had two fantastic deliveries with the NHS. But something is going wrong. All of these deaths seem to have been so avoidable.

my labour was mismangange for over two days, i feel quite lucky that me and my daughter didnt die tbh

It appears to be a national problem

Bloody disgrace.

Sorry Bubbles in work, can't comment at length.

morningpaper and lizs agree entirely - think understaffing is a huge problem as well (across the entire NHS). IN areas such as maternity understaffing can be very dangerous

What an awful story - this makes me feel quite sick. Had DD at West Mid in December, told that she was of average size after growth scans at 32 and 36 weeks - so about 7lbs8 - and in fact she was 9lbs 14oz, 6 days late (induced because of high BP - goodness knows how big she'd have got if I'd gone further overdue - 1st baby). Didn't have ventouse but did have episiotomy (shoulder dystocia ) and she had to have a bit of help when she was born as Apgar was 5. So I agree that they aren't very good at estimating size - and this was at the same hospital. I can't help feeling I was very lucky as even when I was pushing they still didn't think she was big.
Does anyone have a link to this story?