Newcastle hospital told woman whose unborn baby had died to go home and ‘book a slot to give birth’
Trust admits Danielle Brown’s baby would have survived had she not been sent home from RVI days earlier A seven-months-pregnant woman whose unborn baby had…
Trust admits Danielle Brown’s baby would have survived had she not been sent home from RVI days earlier A seven-months-pregnant woman whose unborn baby had died was sent home from hospital with a booklet for bereaved parents and told to book a slot to give birth.
Danielle Brown, 31, had been discharged from hospital with pre-eclampsia, a potentially life-threatening pregnancy complication. The details come from The Guardian.
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- She returned to hospital days later where scans revealed that her daughter, Maisie, had died at about 29 weeks. (The Guardian)
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