Lying midwife struck off for 'deplorable' actions after baby's birth

A baby suffered suffered a 'catastrophic' haemorrhage after a midwife failed to correctly administer vital vitamins at a home birth.

Shadae Mullard, who has now been struck off, was an on-call midwife at Liverpool Women's Hospital home birth team. She lied to colleagues about her failure to provide the crucial vitamins to the newborn in 2021, which led to the baby being hospitalised, the ECHO reports.

A Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) fitness to practise hearing was told how new parents had called for Mullard's help for a home birth in May but that she arrived after the child, named baby A, was born.

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A report released following the hearing - which concluded earlier in August - said Mullard had tried to claim she had given baby A the required vitamin K despite there being no contemporaneous evidence or witnesses of this occurring.

A month later, the child was admitted to a specialist paediatric hospital, with a history of vomiting, a weak left arm and eye rolling. A CT scan found a large intracranial haemorrhage graded as 'catastrophic' and the clotting screen results were consistent with severe vitamin K deficiency.

Ms Mullard has been subsequently struck off from the nursing register after her attempts to cover up her actions. The report said a colleague visited baby A's mother on May 21, the day her child was born, to carry out routine examinations and post natal checks.

She noted that the administration of vitamin K had not been documented and asked the parents who said they could not recollect seeing this being done or being told by Mullard that she had completed it.

After being admitted to hospital a month later, baby A's clotting parameters