{"id":32741,"date":"2025-07-11T13:22:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T13:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/baby-born-at-11oz-and-kept-in-sandwich-bag-died-aged-19-months\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T13:22:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T13:22:31","slug":"baby-born-at-11oz-and-kept-in-sandwich-bag-died-aged-19-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/baby-born-at-11oz-and-kept-in-sandwich-bag-died-aged-19-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby born at 11oz and kept in sandwich bag died aged 19 months"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\"DanielDaniel Chambers<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

After arriving five months early, Robyn was kept in a sandwich bag<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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A baby who was born weighing just 11oz (328g) and had to be kept in a sandwich bag died a few weeks after returning home from hospital, an inquest has heard. <\/p>\n

Robyn Chambers, from Malpas, Newport, had brain damage after she was born at 23 weeks in March 2023 at the Grange Hospital, Cwmbran.<\/p>\n

She was so small that she fitted in the palm of a hand and was put in a sandwich bag to keep her vital organs warm <\/a>while she grew and spent most of her life in hospital. <\/p>\n

Gwent’s Senior Coroner Caroline Saunders said there were “failures” by Welsh Ambulance Service following a 999 call by Robyn’s mother, but she concluded Robyn died from natural causes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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While at home in October 2024, Robyn’s oxygen levels dropped, and following a few days in Noah’s Ark Children Hospital, she died on 2 November at T\u0177 Hafan Children’s Hospice.<\/p>\n

The inquest heard on 26 October 2024, Robyn’s parents, Chantelle and Daniel, became “extremely worried” about her condition.<\/p>\n

Her blood oxygen saturation levels had lowered to between 50 and 60%, which is significantly low.<\/p>\n

They phoned an ambulance but were told it would take eight hours, so they took her to hospital themselves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“We had to carry Robyn out at midnight on our own in the dark and cold,” the coroner said on behalf of Chantelle and Daniel.<\/p>\n

The coroner told the inquest she found there were “failures” by Welsh Ambulance Service when Robyn’s parents made the 999 call that night.<\/p>\n

There was an incorrect record in response to Robyn’s consciousness, Caroline Saunders said, and a failure to record her blood oxygen saturation levels.<\/p>\n

A correct record would have prompted a clinician to trigger a red category response, she said, meaning Robyn would have arrived at hospital sooner as the target time for an ambulance within that category is eight minutes.<\/p>\n

However, the coroner said Robyn already had a chest infection and the outcome would not have changed had she arrived at hospital sooner.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Robyn weighed just 11oz (328g) when she was born<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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She had developed pneumonia and the effects were “overwhelming”, said the coroner.<\/p>\n

The inquest heard evidence from Melanie Collier from the Welsh Ambulance Service who said that changes had been made to the system.<\/p>\n

The inquest also heard from Gillian Pleming from the service who said it was experiencing “a high number of calls in the area” at the time.<\/p>\n

Despite the protocol selection from the clinical support desk being correct, Ms Pleming said, the category was not.<\/p>\n

“I’m reassured that Welsh Ambulance Service has made changes,” the coroner told the inquest.<\/p>\n

Ms Saunders said she would write to Aneurin Bevan University Health Board regarding “unacceptable delays” in the handover of patients, which means that ambulances can’t be released to attend to patients.<\/p>\n

Welsh Ambulance Service and Aneurin Bevan University Health Board have been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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