IRELAND
Irish Independent
Amy Molloy
March 8 2017
A mother has spoken out about the heartbreaking experience of losing her baby son – and how it took 34 years to get his death cert.
Kathleen Byrne, who is now 70, went into a maternity ward in Airmount Hospital in Waterford to have her second baby in 1966.
She went into labour while going to the bathroom and her baby fell down the toilet.
From then on, she claimed the nurses and a Sister Barbara in the hospital “took over everything”.
A week went by and Kathleen was told her son had “taken a turn” – the nurses sent for a priest and he was christened Patrick.
Nobody would tell her what was wrong with Patrick and he was sent to Dublin for a “minor procedure”.
She never saw Patrick again.
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