A grieving mother said she is "not the same person" after the the loss of her daughter destroyed her life. Chloe Vowels Lovett and her husband Toby had been expecting their daughter Esme after seven years of trying to conceive, but she started experiencing "horrible stabbing pains" at the end of her pregnancy. Chloe, 29, claims staff at Worthing hospital told her to "get on with her life" and dismissed her pains as normal just weeks before their daughter was stillborn.
The couple are now calling for a review into maternity services at the hospital and are pleading with bosses to listen to mothers. Chloe, from Southwater, said she screamed when she found out Esme had died, shouting "I told you something was wrong, this was your fault". She added: “To lose a child when you shouldn’t have lost a child is just unbearable.
“As time went on, we began realising that it wasn’t just us that this has happened to, there’s more and more of us and there’s actually a group of us who have now come together who have all lost babies with this particular trust. “I think it just pushes forward the fact that something more needs to be done, because with all of us and our cases, we’re all promised afterwards this will change and we’ll make these improvements. Chloe and Toby with a scan of baby Esme (Image: PA) “But meeting these other families, it’s kind of a timeline that proves that these changes aren’t happening.
So I think pushing for a review, hopefully we’ll force .