Thursday May 26, 2011 at 12:45pm
A bullying midwife told a BBC journalist Heather Paterson, 47, that she didn’t deserve the baby, during a botched delivery.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council has heard that Biobelemoye Toby, 71, who worked at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, told Miss Paterson that she was going to take away her baby.
Toby, also told Ms Paterson, “no pain, no gain” as she screamed to see a doctor.
The baby, Riley Arthur Croft was born in the morning of 25th March 2005 with the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck and died despite efforts to resuscitate him.
Miss Paterson told the Panel that she was “intimidated, terrified and mentally tortured.”
Despite the fact that Miss Paterson had previously shown an allergic reaction to Pethidine, Toby gave her double dose of the pain relieving medication.
Miss Paterson who said she was in so much agony at the time stated: “She told me the pain wasn’t real, that I didn’t need a doctor, that I didn’t deserve the baby and that she was going to take the baby away.”
The hearing continues.