Parents are blaming doctors after an overweight baby born at Queen Elizabeth Hospital had his oxygen cut off briefly during delivery, leaving him in a serious condition in the intensive care unit.
The boy's heart stopped beating for a short time and he suffered oxygen deprivation to its brain when born last Monday. He weighed 4.37kg, well over the doctors' estimate before birth of 3.8kg.
The parents have complained to the hospital that the baby should have been delivered by a caesarean, not by natural birth as the doctors decided.
The birth was complicated when the baby's shoulder became stuck behind the mother's pelvic bone, known as shoulder dystocia.
Doctors used a suction device to aid its delivery, a hospital spokesman said yesterday.
The baby is in serious condition in intensive care.