Mum horrified when surgeon ‘sliced their baby girl’s head' at birth

Parents left furious and in total shock after a surgeon accidentally sliced their baby’s head at birth leaving her with a huge scar.

Emma Edwards’ daughter Karmen has been left with a one-and-a-half-inch scar between her eye and ear as a result of the blunder which is now being probed by health chiefs, reports The Sun.

Emma said a locum doctor, who made the incision as part of a caesarean section, later claimed she had not been told that Emma was in labour as she performed the procedure.

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Emma has been left traumatised by the incident which had been followed by a series of upsetting delays to the operation.

She was also put through an agonising 24 hour wait for a plastic surgeon to come and stitch her newborn’s wound.

The 21-year-old said the mistake could have had far more serious consequences – and claimed the care she and her baby received had been a “disaster from the start to the end”.

“They rushed her off to SCBU (special care baby unit) because they had cut her head.”

“The surgeon came and spoke to me afterwards and said that it happened because I hadn’t told anyone that my waters had broken and was in labour, but I checked my medical records and it said that I had explained that.”

A health board spokesman said an internal investigation is being carried out into the incident.

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26 Comments

- - mom209169 said
  - 01 Nov 2016
    11:22 pm
Oh poor baby
That’s horrible accident

- - jacqui88 said
  - 25 Oct 2016
    10:06 pm
Absolutely horrible – such a negative experience for something that should be amazing for this new mummy.

- - mom156049 said
  - 03 Oct 2016
    9:43 pm
That is shocking. Accidents can happen but the poor baby should have been tended to immediately and any future plastic surgery free of charge to minimize the scar

- - june11 said
  - 01 Oct 2016
    5:43 pm
Why did it take so long for the baby’s wound to be stitched??
The baby’s scar is deep, not like a pencil line. I very much doubt it will disappear.
She may be able to conceal it with her hair or headwear.

- - mom101628 said
  - 30 Sep 2016
    4:11 pm
Terrible thing to have happened and the cover-up just makes it worse. She is still a beautiful baby girl and she will be able to hide the effects of the scar which won’t be so noticeable as now with clever hair styling.

- - tessie said
  - 30 Sep 2016
    11:57 am
This was meant to be a most memorable moment which it will be but for the wrong reason. I hope they get an apology for this dreadful thing that happened and can get past this. Her daughter is beautiful and no scar can ever undermine that. Congratulations

- - rovermum said
  - 28 Sep 2016
    10:47 am
Oh my God. I have never ever heard of this happening before. How traumatic for the family and baby. I hope it’s investigated thoroughly and the family gets all the support they need. What should have been a wonderful experience has now been horrific for them.

- - deb_gs said
  - 27 Sep 2016
    4:28 pm
Hopefully the internal inquiry will mean that legal justice will be done. Hopefully hair will cover the scar in the future.

- - mom117082 said
  - 27 Sep 2016
    4:10 pm
first off your baby is very cute next that doctor should have watch what she was doing if she was doing a caesarean section and your baby was comming out she should have seen her head I’m very sorry for the scar
Also sorry 2 hear that it took so long for a doctor 2 come and look after her she’s a beautyful baby
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- - meedee said
  - 27 Sep 2016
    3:00 pm
Very lucky that it wasnt worse. Poor little bub and im sure Mum and Dad were very upset.
I hate how they try to place the blame at her feet…so rude.

- - mom134803 said
  - 27 Sep 2016
    2:33 pm
Oh my goodness that’s a big blunder indeed ! Glad the baby isn’t too heavy injured !!

- - cherz said
  - 27 Sep 2016
    10:07 am
All said and done I can understand this moms worry…
Wishing them all my very best of healing thoughts.

- - ella12 said
  - 27 Sep 2016
    9:57 am
Oh my gosh, this is horrific!

- - Kezz said
  - 27 Sep 2016
    8:30 am
My beautiful Grandson was born by C -section, and the Dr slipped and cut his little head as well!
He’s now 9 and the scar is definately still there, and to make things worse, the hair will not grown on the spot.

- - mom172741 said
  - 27 Sep 2016
    7:49 am
Would be very traumatic for the family

- - mum4107 said
  - 27 Sep 2016
    6:13 am
That’s disgusting. I hope that Dr is held accountable

- - Sam said
  - 26 Sep 2016
    9:45 pm
Very scary for Mum – but one should be grateful thats all that happenned and that mum and bub are both healthy

- - felicityj said
  - 26 Sep 2016
    9:31 pm
Crikey! Do you think the mother’s tummy had a sign: “Open this side only. Baby is lying sideways.”?? Ease off the criticism, folks. I don’t imagine the doctor did it on purpose. It is quite a skill, knowing exactly how far to cut; and the doctor has a limited time to do it in. The doctor may have been an intern, still learning. Baby was born alive, and mother also survived. Do none of you find that magic? I might add that the baby ‘s skin is very good at healing. I bet she does not have a scar, when she turns 21!

- - kettiek said
  - 26 Sep 2016
    9:09 pm
My daughter was breech and was sliced above her butt, will always have that scar. Nobody mentioned it until I asked the next day at nappy change.

- - kozack said
  - 26 Sep 2016
    8:41 pm
this is scary,you put trust in the doctor,you think that a thing like this would not happen.still a beautiful baby girl scar and all.