A mum who had two funerals for her "perfect" baby girl has spoken out over her "unending grief" 30 years on.
Marie Kelly has called for a public inquiry into maternity services at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust.
Had she been listened to by a midwife at the Queen's Medical Centre (QMC) in Nottingham when her water broke, Ms Kelly believes her daughter would be alive, happy and have a family of her own".
But instead of this, Ms Kelly, now 52, had to go through a traumatic experience giving birth followed by two funerals.
Fighting back the tears, the mum told Nottinghamshire Live recalled the trauma today.
"I was so uncomfortable in this wheelchair because I was in heavy labour. I could feel something down below but the midwife was not listening to me", Ms Kelly said.
"So I am just trying to set myself up in the wheelchair the best I would and then my husband met us halfway down the corridor. I was in agony.
"Laura's head was there and I could hear them saying that we need to get this baby out."
Ms Kelly, from Kegworth, Nottinghamshire, was 40 weeks pregnant when she gave birth to Laura on November 23, 1991.
Ms Kelly claims the midwife "refused to believe that [her] water broke".
After telling an auxiliary nurse what happened, she was put on a wheelchair by a midwife and "run through the doors".
Laura was then born quickly, at 4.02am, in what Ms Kelly describes as "total panic". However, that is when everyone including her mum could notice that the baby "was not breathing properly", Ms Kelly said.
The baby was then sent to the neonatal unit, while the mum was met by "midwives who could not apologise enough".
She was then told by a doctor that her new-born was sent to the City Hospital, and that she was next.
Ms Kelly was rushed to the hospital on the morning of November 24 in an ambulance. Upon arrival, Laura's parents were met by a baby specialist at the hospital who told them that their daughter "had been starved of oxygen".
She was put on a life-support machine, however, her situation failed to improve - so she was christened in the hospital on November 24, just before she died.
But the family's tragedy was far from being over.
Speaking of the day when her baby girl passed away, Ms Kelly added: "We were asked if we wanted to donate Laura's organs because she was perfect. There was nothing wrong with her. But we said no, because we thought she went through enough."
Baby Laura was cremated at the Bramcote Crematorium in Nottinghamshire shortly after she died. Ten years later, however, the news emerged that QMC had kept 2,700 adult and baby organs for research purposes.
And Ms Kelly's "perfect baby" Laura was one of the children whose organs were retained in the Alder Hey scandal. A second funeral took place, with Laura's organs being buried at Clifton Village on February 4, 2002.
The devastated mum added: "It was a small white casket coffin with Laura's organs in. Even the man who did the funeral was sobbing because it was so sad.
"As a parent, it is tragic to go through one funeral of your child, let alone two. Laura should be 31 in November, and this is why I am appalled that this is still happening.
"You think things would be changed now and be better. And then you read the horror stories about what is happening now.
"It makes you not want to have a baby". Ms Kelly went on to say that she is one of the women in Nottingham who feel "let down".
Nottinghamshire Live understands no formal complaint was made following the incident, and records from that time are not available. Nottingham University Hospitals Trust formed 15 years after this specific case.
A spokesperson for the trust said: “We’d like to offer our condolences to Mrs Kelly for the loss of her daughter, Laura, in 1991. We’re sorry for what happened in this tragic case."
