Nurse Natasha Thomson showed up six minutes after the baby was born . Despite her receiving five phone calls in one hour from the mother . It was a home birth and the mother was in 'excruciating pain ' She gave birth to her baby 'on her hands and knees in the bathroom ' Thomson used the mother 's kitchen scissors to cut the umbilical cord . The mother did not want to be there, but she had no choice as it would have been illegal for anyone else to do so.
Nurse Natasha Thomson showed up six minutes after the baby was born . Despite her receiving five phone calls in one hour from the mother . It was a home birth and the mother was in 'excruciating pain ' She gave birth to her baby 'on her hands and knees in the bathroom ' Thomson used the mother 's kitchen scissors to cut the umbilical cord . After examining Ms B 's perineum she said there was a 'tiny tear ' She told Ms B to be 'ladylike ' , and to keep her legs together . But tribunal documents say Ms B had to be later admitted to hospital .