00:00Baby Remy should have spent the first nights of his life here, but instead he was laid
00:09to rest in a tiny casket.
00:12I woke up and said is my baby alive and I got no, just no.
00:17Lacey Morgan was told her baby was stillborn because of complications related to her diabetes.
00:23It was pretty much blamed on diabetes, but I was in there because I was sick and my diabetes
00:29went crazy so I thought I was in the right place.
00:33The ABC can reveal that for more than a year before Remy's death, a midwife had repeatedly
00:38warned the hospital it was failing to adequately care for women with high-risk pregnancies,
00:44including regular checks that could have saved Lacey's baby's life.
00:49It's abysmal.
00:50It almost brings me to tears that people come in trusting us to do the right thing and we
00:59didn't do our job.
01:03One month before Lacey lost her baby, Charmaine Janison, also a type 1 diabetic, had presented
01:09to Redcliffe Hospital.
01:11I am horrified of the care that I got from the Redcliffe Hospital.
01:17I feel they could have done more.
01:20The hospital was slow to identify that Charmaine was suffering from a potentially fatal complication
01:25of diabetes, ketoacidosis.
01:28Her baby almost died.
01:30And it took days to actually establish what was wrong, so that baby was potentially in
01:37a highly acid environment for days.
01:41Jackie Pauline says Charmaine's case should have been a wake-up call for the hospital,
01:46especially in caring for diabetic mothers.
01:49But no official risk report was made which would trigger an investigation.
01:54And then, of course, Lacey lost her baby.
01:58Had they done something when Charmaine came in, it might have all been avoided.
02:04She might have taken her child home.
02:06How does that make you feel?
02:08Angry.
02:09Just because I don't want it to happen to anyone else.
02:17Jackie Pauline became a whistleblower, complaining directly to then Queensland Health Minister
02:21Yvette Darth.
02:23I didn't feel I was being listened to.
02:27And I needed to escalate it because I couldn't sleep at night anymore.
02:32In a statement, Ms Darth said she alerted Queensland Health to Jackie Pauline's allegations,
02:37which were also referred to the department's Ethical Standards Unit.
02:42But three months after Lacey lost her baby, another infant was still born at Redcliffe
02:47Hospital.
02:48She went home with a dead child.
02:53Through mismanagement.
02:56The hospital undertook what it called an independent assessment following Jackie's complaints,
03:01but it was never made public.
03:04The problems haven't been solved, no.
03:07Months after that investigation, a third baby died at Redcliffe Hospital.
03:12This time, the government publicly responded by promising improvements to maternity care
03:17at the hospital and across the state, but Jackie says it all came too late.
03:22There's been a common thread, there's been fragmentation of care, lack of communication
03:29between nursing and medical staff.
03:34In a statement, the hospital said patient safety is always our highest priority.
03:39When we fall short, we do our best to improve the care we provide.
03:43The hospital said following an independent review, improvements have included changes
03:48to leadership and additional staffing.
03:51But there are now calls for a further investigation.
03:54While I can't comment on any specific case, there certainly are some areas that I think
04:00that need to be investigated.
04:03Something needs to be done.
04:05There's too many babies being taken.
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