A pregnant woman wakes from a coma to discover that her baby had died due to medical negligence.
A desperately ill pregnant woman screamed "where's my baby?" after waking from a coma to find her stomach flat. Robyn Davis’ son Orlando had been born lifeless three days earlier with medics spending 20 minutes trying to resuscitate him.
“I couldn't remember what had happened, I was just screaming and crying, I didn't know if I had had a boy or a girl. Jonny, my husband, hadn't been told a lot. They didn't know if I was going to die, he was torn - I was ill in hospital, Orlando in another, our daughter at home, no-one really knew what the outcome was going to be for either of us.
Orlando's doctor told her: "You're smiling, I can tell you don't know much about Orlando." Robyn went on: "We only found out at that moment that he had been born dead. No-one knew his prognosis, we just knew he was very ill and needed an MRI scan." “I detest these people now not only because of what happened but they've had the opportunity at the inquest to admit what happened. I have lost my son. They said 'if they had a time machine they wouldn't do anything different'. I almost died and my Orlando isn't here."
The coroner added the failure to recognise the condition resulted in Robyn developing a number of seizures, which restricted oxygen to Orlando before his birth and resulted in irreversible brain injury. "Orlando's death was contributed to by neglect," the coroner said.
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