NHS doctors did my C-section without anaesthetic – it felt like a million needles

A MOTHER who had a caesarean without anaesthetic has been awarded £100,000.

Jade McEwen, 28, launched a legal fight after her dose was botched.

The mum-to-be was rushed off for an emergency c-section following a stressful labour.

Jade recalled: “I was given a local anaesthetic, but there was no test to see if it was working. Then the curtains went up and they started the surgery.

I freaked out and said, ‘I can feel it’. I could feel them cutting into me.

“It felt like a million needles going into me. I was in an absolute frenzy.”

She said her mum was sent out of the theatre at Queen’s Hospital, Romford, Essex.

A mask was put on Jade and “I was out cold”.

Her 6lbs 12oz son Ronnie was fine after the 2015 birth.

But Jade, of Dagenham, said: “I can't ever contemplate having another child.”

She has also been unable to return to work in child care.

She was awarded £100,000 out of court by the Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust.

Jade said she is left with £45,000 after costs and repayed benefit following the birth.

Chief nurse Kathryn Halford said: “We’re sorry for Ms McEwen’s poor experience.”