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The mother of a baby who suffered brain injury due to complications during birth is suing the hospital in which the incident occurred, according to reports.

Jennifer Kennedy, 42, is planning to sue NHS Ayrshire and Arran after the midwives at Crosshouse Hospital's maternity unit insisted she try for a natural birth, reports the Kilmarnock Standard.

The new mother claims she had asked for an elective caesarean due to problems with the birth of one of her other children but the midwives ignored her pleas and did not take her for a caesarean until her uterus ruptured and the baby had stopped breathing.

"The worst thing about all this is that he was a perfect little baby until that day in the hospital," she told the newspaper.

"Now he has brain damage and will need constant care. He doesn't deserve that."

This comes after the Daily Record reported that a nine-year-old girl was left with brain injury when she contracted the herpes virus, thought to be passed on by a kiss from someone with a cold sore.

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