Hospital left Essex (England) mother alone to await (premature) baby's death

[alp227]

A hospital is to apologise for leaving a mother alone to await the death of her baby who was born at 22 weeks.

Tracy Godwin, 31, thought she had been put in a special room because staff were going to take extra care of her son, who lived for 46 minutes.

Ms Godwin, of Southend, Essex, now wants an inquest into her baby's death.

Southend University Hospital NHS is to carry out an investigation and will apologise to Ms Godwin but meanwhile it has changed guidance for other mothers.

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The hospital has also changed its procedures so staff would communicate better with mothers of babies born under 23 weeks.

Full story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-12776308

Found via: http://www.drudge.com/news/142268/brit-docs-let-premature-baby-die

According to the Daily Mail article referenced in Drudge RETORT: "She has since been told that the hospital has a policy not to resuscitate babies born earlier than 24 weeks into pregnancy."

[LaurenG]

1. very sad. nt

[WingDinger]

2. Republicans would want to verify that mother has adequate ins. or resources

to care for infant, before it was to become an unfunded mandate on the backs of the taxpayer.

At 22 weeks, there is statistically no chance of anything that passes for anything but torture. Poor mother.

[Myrina]

3. ... and then they would arrest her for suspected attempted infanticide ....

n/t