The distraught mother has spoken out after her baby died at just a few hours old. She claims the private clinic she gave birth at botched the delivery of her newborn boy
A heartbroken mother has told how her son died just hours after birth after her pleas with doctors for a C-section went unanswered.
Olga Guzikova has accused doctors at the private clinic in Blagoveshchensk, Russia, of botching her natural delivery and claims they are to blame for her newborn’s death. The distraught woman, who is already the mum of another boy named Stepan, was due to give birth to her second child in December. While pregnant, 34-year-old Olga says she was diagnosed with gestational diabetes. She kept to a strict diet to ensure her baby would be born healthy and claims the obstetrician who was overseeing her pregnancy advised her to have a caesarean section due to the child’s size.
Olga was admitted to the private hospital on December 13. She recalled: “I insisted on a C-section, but no one listened. They said my pelvis was wide enough and I could deliver naturally. I was terrified.”
Olga says medics reassured her everything would be fine and then they broke her water to induce labour. She added: “The doctors waited four hours for the baby’s head to descend into the birth canal. Nothing happened.
“I begged for an epidural because the pain was constant. But they said, ‘Not yet. We’ll wait one more hour. If nothing happens, we’ll do a C-section, but that requires a different anaesthetic.’
“An hour later, the baby began to descend, but his shoulders got stuck in the birth canal. When he got stuck, the head of the delivery ward began pressing down on my stomach—first with her hands, then her elbow—while the obstetrician pulled the baby.
“The pain was unbearable. I screamed, ‘My God, what are you doing?!'” When the baby finally arrived, Olga says she noticed his right arm was limp.
The doctors told her he had a broken shoulder and took him away. She asked the doctor if he was ok and the doctor simply answered with: “Well, he cried, didn’t he?”
Horrified Olga claims that hours later, another doctor came and told her to “say her goodbyes” because her baby had fallen into a coma after suffering “pain shock”. The following morning, his heart stopped.
Furious Olga and her husband Alexei reported the case to the local Investigative Committee, blaming the clinic for their baby’s death, local media reported. She was further outraged after his death certificate signed by the hospital, stated that the baby died from pneumonia.
Olga maintains: “I completely disagree. He died from his injuries. Besides, no one ever told me he had pneumonia, and I was never ill during my pregnancy. We don’t trust these conclusions and want justice.”
She and her husband have now hired a well-known medical lawyer from Yekaterinburg, Yulia Lipinskaya, to help them prove their child died because of the forced natural delivery.
The clinic has not responded to the allegations.