A Birmingham woman has told how her daughter was forced to give birth at the roadside – less than an hour after she was sent home by midwives at Good Hope Hospital who dismissed her claims that she was in labour.

Yvonne Bowskill said Sarah Bowskill’s new baby daughter, Lily May, then had to undergo emergency resuscitation when she stopped breathing after she entered the world in an ambulance near the Wylde Green pub, on Birmingham Road, in Sutton Coldfield.

Paramedics rushed the tot to Good Hope’s intensive care unit as they revived her on Saturday morning. Sarah, who has another child, Callum, aged five, is still in hospital.

And Lily May is also being closely monitored in the paediatric unit.

Yvonne called for an inquiry into the incident and said she was consulting lawyers over claims of clinical negligence at the hospital.

She said Sarah, aged 31, first attended the maternity unit at 7.30am on Saturday and told midwives she was experiencing severe pain and starting contractions.

Three hours later she was in so much pain she could not walk. But instead of examining her, midwives sent her home to Chartley Road, Erdington, at 10.45am.