EXCLUSIVE We won't rest until someone - from our own hospital - is sent to prison for killing our baby: Sarah and Jack were senior medics at Nottingham University Hospital, but even they fell victim to its maternity unit's appalling care By Sarah Rainey Published: 02:01, 9 June 2024 | Updated: 02:06, 9 June 2024 e-mail View comments When anyone asks Sarah Hawkins if she has children, she answers: 'Yes, two daughters.' Sometimes she lets herself pause, for the briefest of moments, before uttering the unimaginable words: 'But one of them is dead.' Harriet, Sarah's first-born child, would have turned eight in April.
She often imagines her playing with her younger sister Lottie, who is four and a half, giggling and chasing her around the kitchen. She wonders if Harriet would have shared Lottie's mop of blonde curly hair, or had the same impish grin. Lottie has lots of questions about her big sister, too.
Can Harriet come to her birthday party next year? Does she mind if Lottie cuddles her teddy? Is she lonely, wherever she is? It breaks Sarah's heart that her two girls never got the chance to meet. For Harriet was stillborn, eight awful years ago, after a perfectly healthy pregnancy and with no underlying complications or health conditions. Sarah and Jack Hawkins first-born child Harriet was stillborn after a perfectly healthy pregnancy and with no underlying complications or health conditions Sarah when 35 weeks pregnant with Harriet.
She had been told her pregnancy was low-risk.
