Mother, 17, who was left brain dead after birth of baby boy 'suffered cardiac arrest during labour'
A teenage mother who was left brain dead after the birth of her baby had suffered a cardiac arrest during labour due to a blood loss, an inquest heard today. Teegan Barnard, 17, had given birth to a healthy baby boy, Parker, in September 2019 before she suffered a postpartum haemorrhage bleed in the delivery room which led to a massive cardiac arrest. Doctors and midwives at St Richard's Hospital in Chichester battled to save her and performed CPR, but the first-time mother was left with unsurvivable brain damage due to oxygen starvation. Heartbreaking pictures taken before she died show bab...
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