article_snippet.sent: The hospital's negligence led to her son James Robshaw, now 12, being born with cerebral palsy.
article_snippet.sent: Ms Adams was born with cerebral palsy after Ms Adams hospital staff failed to carry out a Caesarean section or properly monitor Ms Adams during labour .
article_snippet.sent: Ms Adams was in  labour when Ms Adams was admitted to Lincoln County hospital in 2002.
article_snippet.sent: Although Ms Adams baby's heart was monitored after Ms Adams arrival, midwives either ignored or could not interpret the CTG trace - which detects foetal heart rate - correctly.
article_snippet.sent: James had an abnormal heart rate and was evidently in some distress and Ms Adams was exhausted by a prolonged labour.
article_snippet.sent: The confusion about CTG interpretation and the additional failure to carry out a timely Caesarean section meant there was a delay in delivering James.
article_snippet.sent: Resuscitation procedures were then carried out in the delivery room before James was transferred to the Special Care Baby Unit.
article_snippet.sent: Ms Adams' lawyer, Denise Stephens, a partner with law firm Access Legal, argued that had the Caesarean section had been carried out - or hospital staff had monitored the baby’s heart rate properly - the midwife could have identified that James was in distress.
article_snippet.sent: In either event, James would have been delivered much sooner and so would not have suffered any injury.
article_snippet.sent: Ms Stephens said: ‘This is a tragic case of an avoidable accident at birth which caused devastating injuries. '
article_snippet.sent: James is a bright 12 year old lad with a wicked sense of humour and perhaps the most distressing aspect of a tragic case of an avoidable accident at birth which caused devastating injuries is the loss of the life James could have had if James had not been injured.