Woman claims she felt scalpel during C-section

A woman who claims she felt the scalpel as it cut into her during a caesarean section under local anaesthetic to deliver her second child has sued the National Maternity Hospital, Holles St, Dublin, in the High Court.

Ceinwen Doyle claimed when the initial skin incision was made in the C-section, she felt the scalpel slicing through the layers of skin.

She told Mr Justice Kevin Cross: “I could feel the cutting, it scared me.”