Baby Jack died just 11 hours after birth
JACK Stephen Burn died 11 hours after being trapped in the birth canal for four minutes.
His mother Hayley Matthews had been told that nothing was wrong with her pregnancy but later found out that Jack had been distressed for 20 minutes before delivery.
He had also contracted group B streptococcus, the lethal infection carried by one in five women.
Jack died in March 2015 at the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford, hours after another baby, Oliver Smale, died following similar complications.
Oliver’s death was later deemed avoidable and is one of dozens being probed.
Although Jack’s death was not deemed avoidable, it is now being considered as part of the investigation.
Miss Matthews, from Chirbury, west Shropshire, previously said: ‘We would have both been in the hospital at the same time and there are so many parallels between the two cases.
‘As with this poor boy, Jack got his shoulder stuck during delivery. They just left his head hanging while they went off to get someone to do something about it.’
A post mortem examination revealed that Jack had been starved of oxygen and had an infection on the lung and pneumonia caused by strep B.
Miss Matthews is campaigning for routine screening of strep B, which is not NHS policy. She said: ‘If I’d have been tested for strep B during my pregnancy they might have picked up on it and given me antibiotics at an earlier stage and this means that Jack might still be alive today.’