An hour past his usual bedtime, Mason was awake and transfixed by the glowing orange light on the oxygen monitor taped to his finger, ET-style.

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He also hated the oxygen monitor they put on his finger.

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Some rubber tubes were stuck into my nose and mouth, belts were wrapped around my chest and waist, and an oxygen monitor that emitted an eerie red glow was taped to my index finger.

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The inquest heard that midwives did not regularly check her labour progress and after bringing a foetal scalp electrode to monitor the baby they found he had already been born and starved of oxygen.

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