Mum's heartbreak after baby daughter dies as blundering midwives struck off

Laura Bowtell mislaid her babe girl Margot 3 days aft giving commencement astatine the NHS installation Cheltenham Birth Centre, wherever 2 midwives altered aesculapian records

A heartbroken mum said she volition endure with PTSD for the remainder of her beingness aft the loss of her newborn daughter.

Laura Bowtell asked her midwives to telephone an ambulance for her and babe Margot six hours into the labour astatine the NHS's Cheltenham Birth Centre. However, Lisa Land wanted to usage "oils" and antithetic positions instead, and she lone backed down aft Ms Bowtell asked 3 times for paramedics.

By that time, Margot's bosom complaint had dropped and her beingness enactment was withdrawn 3 days later. Ms Land and different midwife, Hazel Williams person since been thrown retired of the assemblage pursuing the deaths of and Margot different newborn, Jasper White, astatine Cheltenham Birth Centre.

An autarkic probe by the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch took spot into Margot's death. It is reported the probe recovered the bleeding successful labour meant Mrs Bowtell should person been transferred to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital sooner and it could person saved Margot.

Striking disconnected the 2 midwives, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) committee sheet said they had "breached cardinal tenets" of midwifery and their actions could discourage the nationalist from seeking services astatine a birthing unit.

They said: "[Their] misconduct has breached cardinal tenets of the midwifery profession, peculiarly successful narration to not transferring Baby A oregon Patient B which the sheet considered to beryllium cardinal basal midwifery care.

"Further, the sheet considered [their] effort to screen up [their] actions with inaccurate and dishonest grounds keeping to beryllium a breach of the cardinal tenets of the midwifery assemblage and truthful brought its estimation into disrepute. It was of the presumption that specified acts oregon omissions could discourage members of the nationalist to question midwifery services astatine a birthing unit."

Mrs Bowtell - who utilized to enactment successful aviation - present has a 10-month-old girl who she had via C-section. She said, though, the "PTSD I person volition enactment with maine for the remainder of my life".

Speaking to Mail Online, the 37-year-old mum added: "Margot would inactive beryllium present and I wouldn't person to unrecorded with this for the remainder of our lives." In some Margot's lawsuit and that of Jasper, 11 months prior, the midwives failed to telephone the ambulance soon enough, which had tragic consequences. The brace besides altered aesculapian records to marque it look similar Jasper - who was struggling to respire and was a "pale colour" - was successful a amended information than helium was.

"It was my archetypal pregnancy truthful you don't cognize what to expect. I wholly enactment my spot successful the midwives. She was precise chilled, she kept telling maine I was debased risk," Ms Bowtell continued.

"They told maine I would beryllium transferred if I needed it and she was precise assured successful her quality to spot erstwhile that would beryllium needed. When I went into labour astatine midnight, Lisa was connected the nighttime displacement and I felt astatine ease. She was the main idiosyncratic throughout... She arrived and I couldn't support thing down, I was moving connected empty. My contractions weren't giving maine capable to push. She assumed each of this was normal.

"She should person transferred maine to Gloucester. I archetypal asked for an ambulance astatine 10am, I was exhausted. But she wanted to effort tons of oils and things instead."

In the weeks starring up to the birth, Mrs Bowtell had a insignificant haemorrhage and reduced foetal question which should person prompted a hazard appraisal and her transportation to an obstetric-led portion by Mrs Land.

In the aboriginal hours of May 14, 2020, during labour, Mrs Bowtell had humor successful her amniotic fluid and a debased somesthesia some of which should person prompted Mrs Land to telephone an ambulance.

Margot required contiguous resuscitation erstwhile she was calved and erstwhile astatine hospital, she was taken to the neonatal intensive attraction portion but, sadly, she passed distant 3 days aboriginal owed to complications from oxygen deprivation.

During the birth, her foetal heartbeat dropped beneath 60bpm which should person prompted an exigency effect from the full unit, led by Miss Williams arsenic the pb midwife. This did not hap Miss Williams utilized the regular telephone doorbell to inquire for assistance and not the exigency doorbell due to the fact that it was regularly switched disconnected arsenic she wanted the centre to beryllium a 'home from home' without alarms going off.