23-year-old Brogan Smith and 26-year-old Jamie Scrimshaw have released a heartbreaking image of their lifeless newborn daughter who died after doctors failed to notice complications during her birth.
The newborn named Lilah was born 13 days past the due date and died hours after being born at Bassetlaw District General Hospital, in Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
After the doctors decided to stop performing CPR and switch off her life support in a specialist baby care unit, Lilah died at the hospital on January 21, 2018.
A heartbreaking picture shows the grieving parents cradling their lifeless newborn daughter after spending three days at the hospital with her.
The parents described their daughter as the “most precious, most beautiful thing they had ever laid eyes on”.
The parents then accused the medical staff of negligence and urged the medical negligence lawyers to investigate their daughter’s death.
Later, it turned out Lilah died due to the lack of oxygen at birth and her death was preventable.
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has now admitted that they failed to notice the complications during birth and to detect oxygen deprivation during labour.
The parents are now sharing their story hoping everyone learns a lesson and nothing like this ever happens to anyone.
Brogan said: “Jamie and I went into hospital so full of joy, but within just a few hours of Lilah’s birth we were told she was not going to survive.”
“They whisked her away to the Special Care Baby Unit but as I needed some stitches Jamie and I couldn’t go with her straight away.”
The devastated parents said there are no words to describe what it is like to lose a baby and Lilah has left them with memories that no parent should have of their baby.
The parents said it is more difficult to deal with the fact that Lilah’s death was completely preventable if the Trust had provided the care she needed.
Brogan said: “Had the Trust provided the care they should have done we would now have a two-year-old daughter running around our home.”
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