Tell-tale signs of anaemia missed
KATE Stanton-Davies died six hours after she was born because midwives failed to spot tell-tale signs of her deteriorating health, a report found.
Her mother Rhiannon Davies, pictured with her above, had raised fears over reduced foetal movement but midwives failed to properly monitor her pregnancy and wrongly deemed it low-risk.
Kate, who had anaemia, was born pale and floppy at Ludlow Community Hospital in Shropshire in March 2009. She was airlifted to Birmingham’s Heartlands Hospital but tragically died.
A report in February 2016 concluded her death was avoidable and identified a litany of failings and shoddy record keeping at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust. Two midwives were deemed responsible for the errors, one of whom was unable to spot obvious signs the baby was seriously ill following her birth, the report said.