From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. I'm Luke Jones.

I felt like I was going to be sick. I couldn't catch my breath.

And so at that point, Rob phoned the maternity assessment unit.

This was the fourth time that we spoke to them.

Way back on Monday's episode, we introduced you to Katie and Rob. They know more than most about

the crisis that's still unfolding in England's NHS maternity care. In 2021, they're expecting

their first child, Abigail, and throughout the pregnancy, they didn't have any problems.

All seemed well.

Until Katie went into labour, and she started bleeding.

They called the hospital four times, in fact,

and each time they were told not to worry.

But taking the initiative, Rob persisted, and he called again.

I basically explained what I could see in front

of me that, you know, that she was struggling for breath, you know, had gone clammy, was pale,

her blue lips, couldn't speak, she couldn't get a word out, which is why I was, you know,

the one talking to the midwife. They didn't really respond as if they were listening to what I was saying.

They didn't get the seriousness of it. And she ended the call basically saying, well, you could come in,

but there's no rush. They did rush in a taxi all the way to the hospital.

But by that point, Katie was so unwell as she went into cardiac arrest and had an emergency C-section and was put into a coma.

Rob was left to bounce anxiously between the neonatal intensive care unit where his daughter was and the bedside of his wife.

I was woken up in intensive care and told that my baby was dying.

And I can't really explain what that was like.

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