"Appalled by experience in A&E"

My 15 weeks old baby first of all had to wait 8 hours between triage until being seen by a doctor. In A&E we were seen by a staff member who wasn't sure what to do, so went and spoke to their supervisor for the shift, who to my knowledge was in charge of the full A&E doctor team.

The treatment that I was told to give my baby for the next hour was basically torturing her, I told them several times I had been told my baby was not allowed water, yet I had to force it down her throat with a syringe! An hour later the doctor reappeared, after no-one checking for that whole hour, and described two very scary experiences through this water syringing as "funny periods".

After being admitted to the children's ward, I as well as my mother was informed that these "funny episodes" my daughter had in A&E were in fact that for the reasons I explained several times as to why my baby was not allowed water, the water caused my 15 week old week daughter to stop breathing twice.

I went to A&E for help and the advice given could have killed my daughter. I am extremely traumatised by the experience and appalled - I feel physically sick that I could have left A&E with no daughter due to a doctors advice.