Although the baby was premature, a medical error caused the mother to have a natural birth, but the child’s head remained inside her body.
Pregnancy is a moment of happiness but it also causes uncertainty since you want everything to go very well until the end, something that Laura Gallazzi could not enjoy when the birth of her baby went wrong.
A medical error led a woman to give birth to a premature baby and the worst thing is that he was born without a head, something that made the best day of his life the worst and to this day he continues to demand justice.
There was a time when things got complicated but he never thought that his baby who they called Steven would be born beheaded because of a bad medical decision, the case occurred in the United Kingdom.
Laura had a common pregnancy but when she was about six months old she began to have labor symptoms, labor started but the baby was too young to come into the world and they began to treat her.
She was cared for by specialists from the National Health Service in Dundee, Scotland, the first thing they did was give her an injection to accelerate the maturation of the baby’s lungs and try to keep it in the womb as long as possible.
They had previously realized that the baby was sitting up and that a natural birth was impossible, so a cesarean section was the most convenient, but the unexpected happened on the morning of delivery and Laura realized that the umbilical cord was coming out of her.
Dr. Vaishnavy Laxman was the one who would make a mistake since when this arose what she decided was for Laura to start pushing, but as she told the BBC "I felt I shouldn’t push"
She was desperate and for more than an hour she pushed and pushed while the doctor pulled the baby by the feet, suddenly she points out I hear a strange noise and a silence thought she had already had it.
Then she did not hear him cry and they manifested her pushing again, she saw strange reactions and then she felt like they began to sleep, the baby had been born decapitated and the head was still in the mother’s womb.
When she woke up the sad reality would come, the anguished and sad doctor told what happened, told her that her baby had been born lifeless , but another person told her that she will need a cesarean section to remove her head.
Fortunately, they were able to stick her to the little body and she was able to say goodbye to her baby, it was then that she felt that what had happened to her was what happened to a baby when it was aborted, the little one was cremated and her ashes were placed on a bear stuffed animal which he hugs to remember.
In the legal part, the doctor is not detained in fact, although the case was taken to the courts for the laws of Scotland if a baby is born without breathing it is someone who does not exist so there is no crime against anyone, after these years she continues to fight to change the laws so that there is justice.
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