A MIDLAND mother ‘died’ and had to be resuscitated within hours of giving birth when an emergency caesarian section went wrong.

Naurin Ahmed, from Tipton, lost a whole body’s worth of blood – more than nine pints – when her uterus was torn during labour at Russells Hall Hospital, in Dudley, but it went unnoticed.

The mum-of-two said she needed three emergency operations and extensive transfusions to save her life and a hysterectomy, which left her infertile and unable to achieve her dreams of a large family.

Mrs Ahmed, aged 43, has now won a substantial settlement from Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Trust bosses initially denied responsibility in a letter but when law firm Waldrons issued court proceedings, they admitted liability and issued a formal apology to Mrs Ahmed.

“Doctors told me I died and had to be revived,” said Mrs Ahmed, an English and art teacher at Dudley College.

“I lost my whole body’s worth of blood and they said I was lucky to still be alive. I remember being in the recovery room holding my new baby when I had chest pains and felt sick and then I fainted.

“It emerged later that my womb was torn in the caesarian but they hadn’t sealed it before closing me up and blood starting putting pressure on my insides. They had to keep operating and put swabs in to control the bleeding and then did a hysterectomy.

“The birth of our child should have been one of the happiest days of our life but it turned into a nightmare.”