Tiny Kate Stanton-Davies was barely six hours old when she died in her heartbroken father's arms. The newborn had been delivered floppy, pale and cold to the touch despite assurances that everything was fine throughout the pregnancy.
After being flown from a midwifery-led unit to a specialist neonatal unit, NHS staff discovered it was too late to save Kate and she passed away on March 1, 2009. "It went from being the most ecstatic moment in my life, filled with overwhelming joy, to the deepest, darkest place you could imagine," recalled her father Richard Stanton.
Richard and wife Rhiannon Davies never accepted what had happened to their daughter. Their determination to find out what had gone wrong has resulted in the publication of a report that finally uncovers in devastating detail how catastrophic failures led to the deaths of more than 200 babies, nine mothers and left other children with life-changing injuries including brain damage. See more on that here.
