Grief-stricken: Tracy Godwin whose baby boy Tom was 'left to die' in her arms after being born at 22 weeks because of a hospital policy not to resuscitate
A BABY died after medics refused to help him because he was born too early.
Tracy Godwin, 31, went into labour at 22 weeks but her son, Tom, was born alive.
She begged doctors to save the struggling baby but they refused because the hospital has a policy of not helping children under 24 weeks.
Tom, who was delivered last March, survived for 46 minutes before dying in his mother’s arms. An inquest has since been ordered.
The first-time mum, from Southend, Essex, said yesterday: “If he had been stillborn it would have been different, but he tried to live. We were begging them to do something for him.
“They gave me the Butterfly Room suite but never said it was for women who were going to lose their babies.”
A Southend Hospital spokesman apologised if Miss Godwin had not been told of her son’s survival chances and said it would welcome a chance to discuss it.
Read more:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/03/17/premature-baby-died-after-doctors-refused-to-help-him-115875-22994507/#ixzz1GpmoFidB
Tracy Godwin, 31, went into labour at 22 weeks but her son, Tom, was born alive.
She begged doctors to save the struggling baby but they refused because the hospital has a policy of not helping children under 24 weeks.
Tom, who was delivered last March, survived for 46 minutes before dying in his mother’s arms. An inquest has since been ordered.
The first-time mum, from Southend, Essex, said yesterday: “If he had been stillborn it would have been different, but he tried to live. We were begging them to do something for him.
“They gave me the Butterfly Room suite but never said it was for women who were going to lose their babies.”
A Southend Hospital spokesman apologised if Miss Godwin had not been told of her son’s survival chances and said it would welcome a chance to discuss it.
Read more:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/03/17/premature-baby-died-after-doctors-refused-to-help-him-115875-22994507/#ixzz1GpmoFidB
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