Woman loses baby after her pleas for Caesarean are ignored
- Apr 19, 2016
- EmmaArnold
A coroner reported how he believes the NHS favours vaginal delivery over Caesarean sections as they cost less.
Kristian Jaworski died five days after he was born in June 2015 when he was brain damaged during a 'prolonged and extended instrumental' delivery.
His mother, Tracey Taylor, was advised that she had a narrow birth canal when she gave birth to her first baby and was advised to she would need a Caesarean section if she had another child.
However, this information was never recorded in her medical notes and her requests for a Caesarean were ignored.
Lesley Herbertson, senior clinical negligence solicitor at PotterReesDolan, said:
Whatever the reasoning behind the decision by medical staff to proceed with a vaginal delivery, we would argue that Tracey Taylor’s voice should have been heard and her wishes given proper and due consideration.
After repeatedly trying to deliver Kristian using suction and then forceps, an emergency C-section was performed but he had already been starved of oxygen and had suffered severe brain damage.
The coroner at the Inquest, Andrew Walker, sent a report to the Department of Health saying how there appeared to be a financial reason for favouring vaginal delivery over a Caesarean.
North Middlesex University Hospital accepted liability but denied the cost had been a consideration.