Shortly after giving birth to her son Daniel, Kelly Sutton was left fighting for her life after doctors failed to properly close her womb after a Caesarean.
Mrs Sutton lost massive amounts of blood and it was hours before the mistake was spotted, even though she was in excruciating pain, and she was rushed back into theatre for emergency surgery.
She was given 33 pints of blood and was ‘minutes from dying’.
But surgeons could not stem the bleeding and were forced to deliver an ultimatum: remove Mrs Sutton’s womb to save her life.
For Mrs Sutton, now 31, and her husband Timothy, 32, who works in the construction industry, it meant the end of a dream they had shared since becoming teenage sweethearts at school.
The couple embarked on a six-year battle for justice after the dreadful ordeal at New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton, in July 2006.
They have now won a ‘substantial’ six-figure payout from Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust after independent experts agreed that clinicians should have realised Kelly was continuing to bleed.
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