The parents of a stillborn baby girl have pleaded: “Let our little girl be the last to die like this.”

The jury in the inquest into the death of a baby who died a day after her mother was sent home from the Midland Regional Hospital in Portlaoise has returned a verdict of medical misadventure.

A midwife with concerns over a pregnant woman’s scan told a junior doctor to liaise with his consultant and told him she could not stand by his decision to discharge her, an inquest has heard.

A pregnant woman found out her baby was dead the day after a doctor told her the baby was fine and she could leave hospital.

An inquest is underway in Limerick into the death of a baby at the centre of an investigation at the Midland Regional Hospital in Portlaoise.

The lives of pregnant women and unborn babies are being gambled with due to a “geographic lottery” when it comes to standards in the country’s maternity services.