Young mum died six hours after giving birth after 23 doctors mistook brain tumour for ear infection
Parent Dish UK | Keith Kendrick
A young mother died six hours after her baby was born after 23 doctors mistakenly mistook a brain stem tumour for an ear infection.
While she was pregnant, Rosie Kremer, 24, suffered two months of agony and lost two stone.
She was violently sick, slurred her speech and started to lose coordination of her limbs. But despite her pleas for help, doctors insisted her pain was being caused by an inner ear infection called labyrinthitis.
Rosie, who lived in Penrith, Cumbria, spent the last five weeks of her life in bed, unable to sit up or use her hands. A CT scan carried out after brain death revealed a very large brain stem tumour on the right side.
Her mum Lesley said: "I honestly didn't know what was the matter, but everyone seemed convinced she was just having a bad pregnancy.
"It didn't have to kill her. If somebody had spotted it she would have been fine, she would have recovered."
Rosie was declared brain dead at 10.30am on 29 May 2012. Less than six hours earlier, at 4.30am, doctors delivered her baby boy, who she'd already named Bobby Peter, at 29 weeks. He weighed 2lb 14oz.
While she was pregnant, Rosie Kremer, 24, suffered two months of agony and lost two stone.
She was violently sick, slurred her speech and started to lose coordination of her limbs. But despite her pleas for help, doctors insisted her pain was being caused by an inner ear infection called labyrinthitis.
Rosie, who lived in Penrith, Cumbria, spent the last five weeks of her life in bed, unable to sit up or use her hands. A CT scan carried out after brain death revealed a very large brain stem tumour on the right side.
Her mum Lesley said: "I honestly didn't know what was the matter, but everyone seemed convinced she was just having a bad pregnancy.
"It didn't have to kill her. If somebody had spotted it she would have been fine, she would have recovered."
Rosie was declared brain dead at 10.30am on 29 May 2012. Less than six hours earlier, at 4.30am, doctors delivered her baby boy, who she'd already named Bobby Peter, at 29 weeks. He weighed 2lb 14oz.
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