{"id":817221,"date":"2026-10-29T04:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T04:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/817221\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T04:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T04:44:10","slug":"newport-mum-of-critically-ill-baby-denied-food-at-grange-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/817221\/","title":{"rendered":"Newport mum of critically ill baby denied food at Grange Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sophie said she and Ryli were told Florence may need to be induced into a coma at any point and it was &#8220;so touch-and-go the whole time&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At one point, Sophie said she realised she had not eaten for about 28 hours and remembered seeing a food trolley being brought round to mums on the ward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;I remember them saying to me &#8216;oh hi mum, hope you&#8217;re OK, are you hungry?&#8217; And me saying &#8216;oh yeah, I&#8217;m absolutely starving, I haven&#8217;t eaten in ages. What have you got&#8217;?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sophie was asked if she was breastfeeding, which she had not been able to do after the first 24 hours of Florence&#8217;s life as she was no longer taking to her breast milk. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She explained this to staff and said Florence was being given formula, only to be told she was not able to have any food, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I remember just being so shocked. It was so horrific,&#8221; Sophie said, adding she already felt &#8220;disappointed&#8221; at being unable to breastfeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sophie said she and Ryli were told Florence may need to be induced into a coma at any&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-817221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817221","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=817221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}