Despite being told to go home for a few days, Beth insisted on returning the next day to deliver her still-born son by C-section.<\/p>\n
The couples who had met at the golf course had set up a WhatsApp group and, a few days later, Beth and Tom messaged the group informing them of Felix’s death.<\/p>\n
“They sent a photo of them holding his hand,” recalls Sophie. “I cried for them. I actually had to delete the post because I just couldn’t look at it anymore.”<\/p>\n
In February 2023, when she was almost 42 weeks pregnant, Sophie discharged a dark substance which she thought was meconium, a baby’s first stool. It can lead to breathing difficulties for a baby if it is passed before birth.<\/p>\n
Sophie says she called the Princess Royal Hospital “at least 30 times” before someone answered. She was invited in and says that a midwife undertook a well-being check on her but didn’t monitor her baby. She was then sent home.<\/p>\n
By 02:30 the next morning, Sophie had gone into labour with regular contractions and was struggling to cope.<\/p>\n
Once more she called the Princess Royal. She says a midwife told her: “You sound like you’re doing well. We advise you to stay home as long as possible.”<\/p>\n
Sophie dozed off and woke up about 07:00 and was immediately concerned about a lack of movement. This time, she called the hospital and said she was coming in.<\/p>\n
After several delays, staff tried unsuccessfully to find Felix’s heartbeat. Sophie was given a general anaesthetic and Felix was delivered by emergency C-section. He wasn’t breathing, however. Staff struggled to resuscitate him and Felix died the following day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite being told to go home for a few days, Beth insisted on returning the next day to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-421355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}