The parents of a boy with cerebral palsy have called for lessons to be learnt after he was born with 'entirely avoidable' brain damage after a three-week delay in his delivery. Seb Collins, four, was born in a poor condition at Leeds General Infirmary after being starved of oxygen in his mum’s womb.
A midwife raised concerns at his 35 week scan after she spotted a condition known as intermittent end diastolic flow in one of the arteries. Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust, which runs the hospital, has admitted that after seeing the abnormal scan results at 35 weeks, he should have been delivered at 37 weeks.
Instead he was delivered at 40 weeks. After being delivered, he had to be resuscitated and spent five days on a ventilator - and at the age of three he was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, Leeds Live reports.
