This is simply heartbreaking ..prayers and thoughts for the family.
RIP sweet little angel. x

Oh this is so very sad such a tragedy that didn’t need to happen. My heart breaks for this poor woman.

Very sad – new mums rely on professionals to advise them if they are worrying about nothing or if they should see a doctor. This baby should still be here

that would be so stressful and an anxious time for all involved!

Absolutely terrible! I hope the hospital has to pay for what they did in some way. Not only turning her away so her bub was born in the toilet, but for the midwife’s neglect. Now the family has to live with this for the rest of their lives. Truly devastating.

This poor family! My newborn baby was tested for sepsis as she had those same symptoms and I had been unwell in the weeks prior to delivery. She was so sleepy she didn’t even wake when they had to prod her with needles multiple times as they couldn’t find a vein. I can’t imagine how horrible and helpless they must have felt and the pain they have to live with.

Very sad to think he should be alive.

So sad and to think it couldve been prevented.

This is such a sad and tragic story.

this is so sad and totally unavoidable.

How awful. This family has been severely let down by the health system and have paid the ultimate price.

How very heartbreaking.
My Auntie had her children in the UK and at the time they had massive over crowding in the maternity wards so if you had previous had a baby and your pregnancy was low risk they were asking you to have your baby at home. My Aunt did but her child was born needing hospital medical treatment but by the time they got him to hospital it was too late and he suffered brain damage. Tragic when you think if he had been born in a hospital I would have been a normal child.

So sad that this child died needlessly due to poor & neglectful duty on behalf of the nursing staff & doctors of this hospital

Nothing said can lessen the grieve for the loss of a newborn. What I don’t understand is was she properly assess before sending her home? And during the midwife home visit, for a baby born into the toilet, the primary concern should be both mum and baby should be admitted to maternity unit for observations, especially the baby. Condolences to the family.

So very sad. Rip little baby

Aw, bless this family !! What a heart breaking story !

So sorry to hear about this – the family did everything right and to some degree so did the hospital and the midwife – everyone makes mistakes and this just has to be put down to human error.
Have you never done the wrong thing?

Oh my gosh! My heart breaks for this poor family

I know of situation of a lady in Aust. who was in labour, when in and was checked and sent back home until her cotnractions were a lot closer together. He husband rang with details once and was told there was no beds available. Later she was in so much pain she had to be helped to the toilet as she couldn’t stand up straight at all and also started vomitting almost non-stop. Her husband rang again, told them straight that they were coming in and they had better have a bed of some sort. She was in labour for close to 24 hours and the staff kept saying won’t be long now. They hadn’t even notified her Obst. They had given her 3 epidurals, none of which had any effect at all. Not long after a Specialist walked in to check another new Mum, took one look at her and asked if she was in labour, to which she and her husband said yes. The specialist checked her and said ” take her to the theatre”. They just stood there so he yelled at them “I said theatre – move yourselves”. She should have already been there. She was rushed to theatre at which time the baby was in severe distress. Had that specialist decided to check her, their gorgeous baby girl probably would not have survived or would may have had to been resucsitated. The Mum had no back problems until then. It is thought the injections injured the area the needles went into.
We know of other cases for different types of surgery that epidurals have caused back problems. Another one they must have caught a nerve as the man’s leg kept jerking and he couldn’t control it….. They are trialling a new pain control at a hospital in SA which they hope will be quicker acting and have no effect on the baby at all.

This is such a sad set of circumstances and a very tragic end. Condolences to the family.