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A woman's first child died two days after birth when medical staff failed to spot 30 warning signs indicating the baby's life was at risk during labour.
Alwyn Callaway suffered fatal brain damage after his heart started failing while his mother Lisa, now 41, gave birth at Watford General Hospital.
Mrs Callaway, 41, from Cardiff, took the case to the Health Ombudsman which described the case as "indefensible".
The hospital has since employed 18 more midwives and strengthened training.
A report has found Alwyn would have lived if he had been delivered earlier.
The baby was born at 3.32pm, but an independent expert who examined records of the birth said Alwyn would have enjoyed a "good outcome" if he had been delivered by Caesarean section before 10.50am.
Mrs Callaway, who has had two more children since Alwyn died three-and-a-half years ago, told BBC Wales one midwife had raised concerns with senior staff on 11 separate occasions during the labour and recorded them in her notes 30 times.
Alwyn was being monitored with a heart trace known as a cardiotachograph (CTG), and his mother was being given a drug called syntocinon to speed up her labour, which the Ombudsman said should have been stopped once the baby got into distress.
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