A furious mother says a simple £15 test could have saved her family serious physical and mental trauma after her newborn baby was left fighting for her life. Preya Vaja's baby Uma nearly died in childbirth due to sepsis caused by Group Strep B, an infection that can be easily identified by a swab test.
Preya, 38, and Uma both had sepsis caused by the infection, which is carried by one in four women. It kills one baby in the UK a week and leaves another 50 each year with life-changing disabilities.
The terrifying birth of her second child left Preya with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and postnatal depression as Uma needed resuscitating a number of times in the minutes after she was born and was rushed to the neonatal intensive care unit after an emergency C-section under general anaesthetic.
