Woman seeks answers after baby dies

The anticipation of being called a mother was stifled for 19-year old Kaison Young, as her first child died on July 5, two days after she gave birth.

"I am damaged, I need answers because I carry my healthy baby for nine months and he just died like that," she said. "Every time me think about it, me just want to fling things or me just want scream." Young told THE WEEKEND STAR that she was waiting for a prolonged period to deliver her son.

"When me go up a delivery room, I was already 10 centimetres dilated. The nurse was never in the room when I go up there but when she come, me tell her that the baby is coming and she tell me to lay down on my left side and close my leg," said Young. "I spent about two to three minutes in the labour room and four minutes in the delivery and had started pushing already because I was closing my leg to prevent him from coming down." She also said the nurse was not very helpful during her delivery.

Oxygen shortage

Young said that based on information she got from a doctor at the hospital, baby Kayden, as she had named him, died as a result of oxygen shortage.

"When the baby come out about five doctors me see rush come in and carry him go nursery. When me go the nursery, the doctor did a explain to me say because him take long to come out, him oxygen cut off and it wasn't going to his brain so him get a seizure attack," she told THE WEEKEND STAR.

The distressed Dunkirk, east Kingston, resident said that she is having a hard time coping with the excruciating pain.

"Me can't even look in the phone on his picture," she said. "It hurts a lot especially when I see someone with their kids or pregnant to know that mine is not here."

Shuwana Johnson, public relations officer of the South East Regional Health Authority, said they would be investigating the matter.

Public Defender Arlene Harrison-Henry told THE WEEKEND STAR that her team would be willing to investigate the circumstances under which the baby died.

"Losing a baby is one of the most traumatic things that could happen especially to a 19-year-old," she said. "So we would advise her to come in and make a complaint and then we would commence an investigation by at least looking at her medical records, hearing from the hospital, and if necessary, get an independent medical opinion."