"baby was suffocating, he had forceps and a few other tools to pull him out. I've been left with being incontinent"

A mother’s experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2019 and 2023:

My now 6 year old was born in 2019 at just 24 weeks old. We went into hospital a week earlier and was kept in for a few days where no obvious checks were done.

A week later I came up to the maternity ward at the OUH, where I happened to be in labour and no one realised until my partner came in and told them to do proper checks on me. It took for a junior midwife to check below to see my son’s head was nearly out and I was rushed into delivery suite with minutes until baby was born I gave one push.

Also my other child who was born in 2023, everything was going to plan no concerns of early labour as I had a cervical stitch, my labour day came and as said everything was going well until we was taken into the suite and my son got stuck at 7cm for nearly an hour.

I asked for an epidural serval times and I was told I would get it but I never did. It turned out one of my cervical stitches was still there and baby was suffocating, he had forceps and a few other tools to pull him out. I've been left with being incontinent and also had to have the doctors remove my cervical stitch 6 months later after baby was born.