SHOCKING REPORT REVEALS HOSPITAL’S 32 Our baby died after medics got lost in their own hospital Mum put in scorching’ birthing pool and given wrong drugs

ing that and she said she was doing it because she needed to. It was scorching.”

Sam and her partner Dale Jones had chosen the midwife-led e-led birthing unit at Pontefract act Hospital after it was described to them as beingg “like a hotel”.

She had enjoyed a perfect pregnancy and thought she was in good hands whenn she went into labourur on t he morning of February 6, 2015.

But blunders started within minutes of Sam’s arrival on the unit, including the decision to give her Meptid – a pain relief drug that should not have been administered at this stage of la- bour. An internal investigation into Theo’s stillbirth found mistake after mistake was made, leaving Sam cradling her son’s lif lifeless body. Cho Choking back tears, Sam said said: “They cleaned me up an and said do you want to h hold him and I did hold h him. I was sat in a chair and it was like a ton of bricks had hit me.” Sam and Dale spent t the night in a room a alongside Theo’s body be before saying their goodbyes the following day. Sam Sam, fromfro Featherstone, West Yorks, said: “It was heartbreaking. The worst part was driving home because we knew he should have been coming home. It was the hardest. We went back to my auntie’s first because I couldn’t face going home. His nursery was all ready for him, everything was set out. Bottles, steriliser, everything.

“We knew we were going to have a boy and we had done the nursery out for a boy. It was blue and grey.

Damning

“I didn’t want to walk through the door. I didn’t go into his room for months. We blocked it out of the house.

“We spent a lot of time in that room making it perfect and then we had to block it out.”

Sam and Dale knew something had gone wrong but it wasn’t until 10 weeks later that they discovered the full shocking truth.

They were given a damning 54-page report into their son’s death. Sam said: