DUTCH TREATMENT:

http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/tm_objectid=15263654&method=full&siteid=50082&headline=mother-s-day-reminder-of-baby-hell-name_page.html>Mother's Day reminder of baby hell (Lucy Ballinger, Wales on Sunday)

MOTHER'S Day reminds Linda Baldwin of how close she came to losing her daughter 26 years ago.

Twenty minutes after she gave birth to Claire, she was told by doctors her beloved child was dead - except she wasn't.

She was lying in a kidney dish in a dirty laundry room battling for every breath.

If dad Geoff hadn't found her, Claire probably wouldn't be the healthy 26-year-old university graduate she is now.

Ex-nurse Linda, from Carmarthen - who spoke out after the publication of a new report highlighting the illegal euthanasia of newborn babies in the Netherlands - had Claire premature at 29 weeks in Holland.

Linda, 53, said: "Before I knew it I had this tiny, beautiful baby girl looking up at me. After a quick cuddle, the nurses took her and I assumed they were going to clean, weigh and measure her and then bring her back.

"But 20 minutes later my husband was starting to get a bit impatient and when we asked where our daughter was we were told to forget about her.

"We couldn't quite believe what we were hearing so Geoff searched for Claire and found her in a room of dirty laundry, lying in a kidney dish.

"He went to get help but the nurse he found said he should leave Claire as she was brain-damaged and was close to death. But he had seen how responsive she had been with me and she was gasping for air and he demanded she was put in an incubator."

Don't they know, some lives aren't worthy of being lived...

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 11, 2005 11:56 PM