![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/mum-sent-home-with-sick-baby-twice-by-maternity-unit/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1_MEN_Luca-Yates-01.jpg&description=Tragedy occurred as Nicole Ditchfield's baby, Luca, died the day after he was born in the maternity unit of Tameside General Hospital following a severe brain injury A mother was sent home with her sick baby twice by a maternity unit and he died hours later, an inquest heard. Nicole Ditchfield told her son Luca's inquest she was made to feel she was being "over-dramatic" during repeated calls and visits to a hospital maternity unit when she went into labour. Luca died at Tameside General Hospital following a severe brain injury, which the family blame on a lack of oxygen before birth and alleged poor attempts at resuscitation. An inquest into the tragedy heard that twice Nicole visited the maternity unit but was told to go home and that, as her contractions grew stronger, she started being sick and complained of bleeding, she made 13 unanswered phone calls to the unit. On her third visit to the unit, midwives struggled to detect a heartbeat and Luca was delivered following an emergency Caesarean section. The infant was left with a severe brain damage due to a lack of oxygen and his devastated parents took the heart-breaking decision to withdraw him from life support. He died on January 24, 2022, in the maternity unit of the hospital, the day after his birth, reports Manchester Evening News. Miss Ditchfield, a business administrator from Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, first attended the maternity unit on May 30, 2021, with her partner and father of the unborn child, Jack Yates, and the pregnancy 'progressed normally' apart from mum catching Covid in December, although she recovered. The parents told Stockport Coroners' Court on Monday they had a "reassuring" visit to the maternity unit on January 7 when a scan showed Luca, then at 39 weeks gestation, was 'moving well' and the unborn infant was said to weigh 7lb and 1oz. "I felt well in myself," said Miss Ditchfield. The pregnant mum called the unit on January 12 when she spotted 'light pink spotting' and she){kind=link}
Tragedy occurred as Nicole Ditchfield’s baby, Luca, died the day after he was born in the maternity unit of Tameside General Hospital following a severe brain injury
A mother was sent home with her sick baby twice by a maternity unit and he died hours later, an inquest heard.
Nicole Ditchfield told her son Luca’s inquest she was made to feel she was being “over-dramatic” during repeated calls and visits to a hospital maternity unit when she went into labour. Luca died at Tameside General Hospital following a severe brain injury, which the family blame on a lack of oxygen before birth and alleged poor attempts at resuscitation.
An inquest into the tragedy heard that twice Nicole visited the maternity unit but was told to go home and that, as her contractions grew stronger, she started being sick and complained of bleeding, she made 13 unanswered phone calls to the unit.
On her third visit to the unit, midwives struggled to detect a heartbeat and Luca was delivered following an emergency Caesarean section. The infant was left with a severe brain damage due to a lack of oxygen and his devastated parents took the heart-breaking decision to withdraw him from life support. He died on January 24, 2022, in the maternity unit of the hospital, the day after his birth, reports Manchester Evening News.