A deeply sad couple has revealed how they broke down their healthy baby after they were accidentally told by NHS doctors that their newborn would have a serious genetic disorder.
Carly Wesson said she ended her pregnancy at 14 weeks in January 2019 after doctors from Nottingham University Hospitals Trust (NUHT) said her baby had a rare condition.
Mrs. Wesson and her partner Carl Everson were told that their unborn child had Patau's syndrome, a condition that often results in a miscarriage, death birth or the baby who died shortly after birth.
The police are now investigating the treatment of more than 2,000 families through confidence.
Wesson explained how they made the 'impossible choice' and said that doctors let her know that there was a good chance that her daughter would not survive the pregnancy and stay with serious care needs.
When they asked doctors if the more detailed analysis would give a different result two weeks after they had made the fatal decision, the couple were told that it was unlikely.
“We thought the best option was to end the pregnancy because the baby suffered,” Mrs. Wesson told the BBC.
But six weeks after breaking down what their first child would have been, that they had the nickname Ladybird, they were told that she had no deviation and that the first test result had been a false positive.
Carly Wesson and her partner Carl Everson decided to break down their baby after they had been wrongly informed by doctors that Patau's syndrome had – a rare genetic disorder that usually results in a miscarriage, stillbirth or death shortly after birth
The couple was wrongly told that their daughter, nicknamed 'Ladybird', would survive the pregnancy unlikely
Mrs. Wesson added that, in a clear attempt to calm the couple, a doctor told her that she “probably had a miscarriage.”
Anthony May, the CEO of Nuht, admitted that the trust 'failed' Carly and Carl had 'fail'.
He said: 'Although words will never change the outcome, I can insure them and other families that we have investigated and learned from this tragic matter.
“Since 2019 we have implemented the findings of this incident and ensure that we have robust processes for checking, communicating and monitoring results.”
Another series of potential parents received less than a day by doctors to decide whether to break their baby, after he was incorrectly informed that it had a life -restricting disease.
The family, who remain anonymous, was informed for 20 weeks in their pregnancy of the possibility of the possibility of an abnormal development of the same NHS trusts before they were told that their baby probably had a genetic condition.
Due to legal limitations that aborts prohibit after 24 weeks, the family was forced to end the pregnancy before they received the test results to see if they too were carriers.
The mother said that her baby 'kicked in me' while she pressed doctors for the test results and eventually had a termination surrounded by other parents who give birth to healthy babies.
A post-mortem discovered that the baby did not have the condition. The parents say that trust has never explained them for the false diagnosis.
For other families, false information led them to almost deny that they could welcome their babies to the world after the warnings of doctors led them to set up an abortion.
An anonymous mother, who had previously experienced a stillbirth, almost demolished her son in 2015 after she was advised by doctors that he probably had a life -restricting disease.
A scan with 'a big black hole in the middle' seemed to show that the baby was struggling to empty his bladder.
“I really remember that we told friends, not with a happy, joyful,” guess, we are pregnant. ” It was more of a 'we still have a baby and it will die,' the mother said.
A second scan seemed to show that the condition had deteriorated with an even greater black shape.
But the couple was saved from the edge of the end of birth, when a third scan normally returned.
The family says that they have never been explained the cause of the incorrect scan results.
There is an investigation into the treatment that is underway more than 2,000 families in two Nottingham hospitals, including City Hospital (photo),
In addition to the police investigation, an investigation into the treatment is received by more than 2,000 families in two hospitals run by NUHT, the Medical Center of the Queen and the Stadsziekenhuis, carried out by senior obstetric Donna Ockenden.
It will include an evaluation of prenatal care in the hospitals and is expected to report in 2026.
Nuht said that the fetal medicine teams support hundreds of parents from the East Midlands every year.
Mr. May said, “For women and families who use this service, there will be times when they are confronted with making very difficult and long -term decisions.
“We strive to support them in the most compassionate and professional way and we always want to hear from families who do not feel their experience match that ambition.”
