Inquest told baby died of rare condition
A newborn baby who lived for just six hours probably died as a result of a rare condition in pregnancy, expert witness Dr Phillip Cox told a jury inquest in Bridgnorth yesterday.
Dr Cox said he believed Kate Seren Stanton-Davies developed fetomaternal haemorrhaging in the womb.
The consultant perinatal pathologist at the Women's Hospital, Birmingham, said blood haemorrhaging from the baby into the mother and would have led to the anaemia leading to brain damage which killed her.
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Dr Cox told the hearing fetomaternal haemorrhaging is a common cause of stillbirths and would probably have accounted for the lack of movement of baby Kate in the womb in the weeks running up to her birth which her mother, Rhiannon Davies, had reported to staff at both Ludlow Community and the Royal Shrewsbury hospitals.
Kate was born at Ludlow Community Hospital, but transferred to Birmingham Heartlands Hospital where she died later the same day.
Miss Davies and her now husband, Richard Stanton, of Ludlow, had told the inquest a catalogue of alleged errors by medical and ambulance staff lay behind the death.
The inquest continues.