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A young woman who bled to death after giving birth was sent home by hospital staff after being told she was only in the early stages of labour because they didn’t know she had a life-long struggle with constipation.

D’Lissa Parkes, 26, bled to death and oxygen starvation left her daughter S’Riaah with severe brain damage she may never walk or speak on October 8 last year.


D’Lissa, who had lost over two litres of blood by the time of her death, admitted herself to Lewisham Hospital the day before with crippling labour pains.

But the childminder was sent back to her home in Catford without being examined because staff told her she was in too early stages of labour.

When she was readmitted in the early hours of the following day she was haemorrhaging severely. D’Lissa had always suffered from constipation, the inquest heard, and it emerged after her death she had a large faecal mass in her colon, forcing her womb out of shape.

Earlier on in her pregnancy she had a colonoscopy which had identified the blockage, the inquest heard, but this was never acted upon. Her mother Sylvia Parkes told the inquest in a statement that she first became concerned when she learned the baby had not turned in her daughter’s womb.

Instead of booking her in for a caesarean, doctorsdecided to manually turn the baby ahead of the birth – leaving D’Lissa with a misshapen “diamond-shaped” bump.Mrs Parkes and her husband Parbeto are now full-time carers for their disabled granddaughter.

She said: “I didn’t want them to turn the baby because she was so small and her bump was so big.“I remember begging her to ask them not to do it, but she came back [from the appointment] and said they had done it.

“I was very angry about that. She started vomiting, her tummy was a funny shape – misshapen – and when she sat she had to sit on one side of her bottom.“It was hard for her to tell me about it [the pain] because she knew I was against them turning the baby.

“When she went to the hospital she was screaming in pain but she was only one centimetre dilated, she was in constant pain and it would intensify every six minutes or so.“Before going to bed she was in severe pain and bleeding.”

Eventually Mrs Parkes called an ambulance for her daughter.The grandmother said: “I have questions as to why she didn’t have a caesarean section earlier, why the mass wasn’t seen.

“I wish I could turn the clock back and ask the questions myself and I wish I had been more argumentative and more alert.“I wish I had spoken up for her – I was there I sawwhat happened, I saw the rush and I saw the urgency.

“If she had been managed differently I don’t knowhow it would have been different.”Delivering a verdict of death by natural causes, DrWalker said that Ms Parkes “should have been kept in [hospital] because there was significant risk that the baby may suffer”, but that “sending her home made no difference” to her chances of survival.

John Seaton, consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust said: “I think the hospital should do its best to publish this case as a report so anyone with this rare condition can benefit from it.”

Asked if there was a risk further deaths in a similar situation, Mr Seaton replied: “If scans are not available, yes.”He added: “I think she may not have realised the seriousness of the problem she had.”Dr Walker said that Parkes may not have alerted hospital staff to her severe constipation which had caused complications because she was “embarrassed”.

SunUK 

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