“Our baby would still be here’’. Couple attack move of HRI’s maternity services

Nov 11 2008 by Sam Casey, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

“Our baby would still be here’’. Couple attack move of Huddersfield’s maternity services

A BABY girl would have survived if she had been born in Huddersfield not Halifax, her parents say.

Alanna Delahaye and Glynn Bates, of Coombe Road, Golcar, say daughter Maisie would have lived if full maternity services were still open at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary.

Instead Alanna was driven the extra five-and-a-half miles to the Calderdale Royal Hospital in Halifax where Maisie was born through emergency Caesarean section.

She was not breathing when she was delivered, but doctors managed to revive her.

But she was left severely brain- damaged because her umbilical cord had been wrapped tightly around her and had cut off oxygen to her brain.

The couple were told Maisie was likely to die within a few days.

They took the heartbreaking decision to take her off life-support three days later.