Parents of baby who died of catastrophic brain injury were 'told everything was fine'

mirror.co.uk:

The parents of a baby girl who died of a catastrophic brain injury just four days after birth were reassured by hospital staff that everything was fine, an inquest heard.

Little Lyla Morton was born by emergency caesarean section in June 2019 and had to be resuscitated because she was not breathing.

Despite the neonatal team's best efforts to save her, she died on June 17 at Leeds General Infirmary. A post mortem examination found that Lyla had suffered a lack of oxygen due to a small placenta which led to a catastrophic brain injury and multiple organ failure.

Lyla's parents Heidi Mayman, 31, and Dale Morton, 30, said: "We would give anything to turn back the clock and for things to be different, but we know that's not possible. "At least