Case No. EWFC-57

46.As I have already noted, B was a much loved and wanted baby. A, having arrived from India having suffered the loss of both of her parents within a very short period of time, was somewhat isolated in the UK, although she did have some family on C’s side and a few friends. At the time that B was born, C was working two jobs, as a delivery driver at night and then daytimes at a local supermarket. She accepts that this meant that she was on her own with her baby for long periods of time. A also told me that she had some relapse in her C-section pain, and was also spending lots of time trying to encourage her baby to feed. The family did have some days out at the weekend, but life was hard and very tiring. 47.A told me that she had told her close family about her marriage and her pregnancy, but she also accepted that she had told a friend that she had ‘mixed emotions’ about having a baby, feelings that it is not hard to understand if the circumstances were that A had lost her parents so recently. A also told me that there were complexities related to the fact that she as a Hindu Indian woman was having a baby before marriage to a Pakistani man that led her to be more cautious about who she told her news to. 48.A is a Doctor of Pharmacy. She has two degrees. It is apparent that she might also be classed as a ‘worrier’ in that her internet searches demonstrate her searching for any number of medical complaints related to both herself and her baby which were highly improbable. It was also apparent from her evidence that she had a very close relationship with her parents, and their absence from her life was something that she continues to feel daily. I think that I am entitled to infer that, had her mother still been alive when B was born, a lot of the advice that she sought from the internet and from friends might have been provided by her own mother. 49.One of the issues that concerned A was that she continued to experience considerable pain in the area of her C-section operation, such that she was thinking about seeking emergency medical advice in the days before B was admitted. 50.C has been married before, and his ex-wife has made allegations against him that he was abusive towards her and his daughter. In particular, it has been alleged that he slapped his child. Those allegations have never been determined by a court, and they are wholly denied by C. It is not unusual for two adult parties to a relationship to have very different accounts of their relationship, and sometimes serious allegations are made by one against the other, which are not true. I am not persuaded that these were matters to which A should have been more ‘interested’ or which should have alerted her to potential risk. She has only ever known C to be a caring, thoughtful and hard-working partner.