WARNING: DISTRESSING DETAILS – Midwives told Adele Thomas, 25, that she wasn’t in sufficient pain or dilated enough to give birth. She was turned away from Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr Birth Centre in Ystrad Mynach three times before being admitted

When she was finally admitted, after trying for the fourth time, she described how two midwives at the unit argued while her baby son, Zak, remained trapped in the birth canal for 35 minutes.

He was starved of oxygen, and when Adele gave birth, he needed resuscitating, reports Wales Online.

Adele recalled how her son was picked up ‘by his arms and legs’ and took him to a resuscitation room where, for a frantic half hour, Adele and her partner had no idea if he was alive or dead.

Zak ended up being rushed to the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport, where, despite the best attempts by medics to save him, he died two days later.

However, it wasn’t until Adele and her partner Stephen Carter read a report into the centre’s failings, published in early 2019, that they discovered the truth about what had happened to their son while he was out of their sight.