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Lydia Patrick & Rosaleen Fenton

'Midwife said my baby had an STI so I thought husband was cheating - then I discovered truth'

A woman was left wondering whether her husband had cheated on her whilst she was pregnant after a midwife wrongly diagnosed her newborn with an STI. Jenna Barnes, 43, took her newborn baby boy, Fletcher, to hospital for a check up when his eyes became "gunky and stuck together".

He underwent tests to determine what was causing the issue and Jenna claims a midwife told her the tot had tested positive for sexually transmitted disease gonorrhoea. Jenna says she was told the infection would have been passed on by a parent before the tot was born - leading her to believe her husband, Chris, 45, the frontman for a tribute rock band, had cheated on her.

Knowing she had been faithful and wouldn't have contracted gonorrhoea from anyone else, Jenna confronted Chris - who insisted he hadn't strayed either.

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