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Nottingham Post
Nottingham Post
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Olimpia Zagnat

Nottingham hospital denies claim newborn ‘left without food for 37 hours’

A heartbroken mum said she is "scared" for her baby girl who was born with organs outside of her body. Kaia-Rose Pooley was born at the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham on March 29 - and has spent the first months of her life in the hospital.

Her mum Kim Pooley had the baby - her third - delivered via a C-section and has voiced her fears over her daughter's treatment. The newborn has complex medical needs, and requires to be fed and nourished via a tube.

But her mum claims that her baby girl was left "without food" for long periods of time. The hospital denies the claims. The 40 year old devastated mum, who works in the special education needs sector, described her daughter's complex needs, adding: "She has got the bowel and intestine on the outside of her body, and that is causing Exomphalos. She also has two holes in her heart.

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