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Woman Gives Birth in Toilet of NHS Hospital, No Midwives Available

Posted by Duane Lester on Aug 21st, 2007 • Clicks

I can’t wait until we get quality healthcare like the Brits have:

Eleven weeks into her pregnancy, Miss Brown, 30, started suffering abdominal pains. She was told she was suffering from a urinary infection which would not affect her pregnancy. But on the evening of February 21 she started bleeding and was rushed into hospital.

Her condition was stabilized with intravenous antibiotics and in the early hours of the following morning she was moved to a mixed-sex ear, nose and throat ward where a bed was available. She was placed in a doorless annexe of the ward and told to expect a scan in the morning.

By 5pm that evening she had still not had a scan. The procedure was only arranged at 7pm after her mother, Sheila Keeling, 51, threatened to make an official complaint.

Doctors discovered there was no amniotic fluid around the baby, meaning his chances of survival were minimal.

Miss Brown was told her own life was threatened by her condition and, following a consultant’s advice, she took the devastating decision to undergo a chemically-induced abortion late that evening, after which she was moved into a private room.

At 4am on the following morning she went into labour but complained she had to wait an hour for gas and air to help with the pain.

With no professional help available, she decided to go to her en suite bathroom and stand over the toilet, which had a disabled bar for support, because she had given birth to her son, 18-month-old Matthew, in an upright position.

Her mother spoke of her fears that she was going to lose her daughter as well as her grandson, because she was bleeding so heavily.

“I was running around frantically trying to find gas and air for her and pleaded with nurses, who seemed very matter of fact, to assist,” she said.

“The staff I did find told me they did not have the training to help. Catherine was left to deliver the baby alone with just me for help before cleaning herself up and going back to bed. It was horrific.”

But their trauma was still not over. Miss Brown said staff almost took Edward’s remains away for disposal despite her informing the hospital she wanted to hold a funeral.

“They didn’t even record the details of Edward’s birth. But he did exist. And more than that, he was a very special little boy.

“Hopefully he has made sure that other families won’t have to go through what we did. We’ll never forget him.”

Following this, it was discovered that Brown had “septicaemia,” “a serious medical condition characterized by a whole-body inflammatory state caused by infection.” I wonder why this wasn’t discovered prior to her abortion. It is a killer.

This was the flagship hospital for the National Health Service. After failing to provide medical services, the hospital compounded the issue by nearly disposing of Edward in the medical waste.

The hospital is sorry all this happened and has taken actions to prevent any more women from needing to give birth in the toilet. So, yeah, let’s get some of this healthcare over here.

BTW, the United Kingdom’s health care rating is 18. The United States ranks 37. Perhaps if we have a few more women left alone to deal with the horrors of aborting their child, we can look better in the eyes of the world.

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