Ashington parents seek legal action over treatment of baby during pregnancy

A mum who raised warnings over the health of her unborn baby is taking legal action against a hospital after her child was born with cerebral palsy.

Chelsie Dixon believes medics failed to act quickly enough when she became worried during the late stages of her pregnancy.

Today she told the Chronicle: Hed been fine all the way through my pregnancy, moving all the time. But at 37 weeks, he just stopped.

Chelsie, 23, said medics at Wansbeck General Hospital tested her babys heartbeat and told her everything was fine.

But after returning to her Ashington home, the expectant mums concerns continued and she returned to the hospital the following day, but was told her baby appeared healthy.

At 39 weeks, Chelsie went into labour and her son, Rocco Miller, was born weighing 6lbs 5oz.

Chelsie said: I only saw him for a few seconds then he was taken straight off and put into special care. He was born at 7.54pm but I didnt get to see him properly until 2am. I was worried.

When he was two days old Rocco was checked over by a consultant from Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary.

He didnt appear to be responding to things and so, when he was three days old, they took him over to the RVI for tests, said Chelsie.

They told me his brain had swelled up from a lack of oxygen and they think he had stopped breathing for about 20 minutes.

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Ashington parents seek legal action over treatment of baby during pregnancy