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News items on 'Fetal Distress'
Compensation for baby death
(BBC 13/10/2009)
A couple have been paid £160,000 in compensation after their son suffered fatal brain damage following critical delays by staff at his birth. Midwives at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, failed to spot Johanne Rees's unborn baby was in distress. Ms Rees, 32 weeks into a "high risk" pregnancy, was told by a doctor she was not in labour but needed a toilet. Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, formerly Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust, has apologised unreservedly.
Heart rate monitors 'can put unborn babies at risk'
(The Scotsman 19/08/2009)
PREGNANT women were yesterday warned against using foetal heart rate monitors at home. Experts said that the devices may cause delays in women seeking help if their baby stops moving. Writing in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), they told how one woman used a foetal Doppler machine after her baby's movements slowed but felt reassured all was well after hearing the heartbeat. However, the baby girl went on to be delivered by emergency caesarean and stayed in a special care unit for eight weeks.
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