Connecticut Doctor Killed Newborn By Using Vacuum Pump 15 Times to Extract Him from Pregnant Mother Who Pleaded for C-Section, Wrongful Death Lawsuit Says

When Danielle Mackenzie, 31, arrived at a hospital to give birth to her baby this past February, she was in great health and had a textbook “normal” pregnancy, a new lawsuit claims. Now she and her partner, Fabrice Diaz, are grieving the loss of their boy, Alexander, after they say Dr. Jay Matut recklessly applied a vacuum pump 15 times to the baby’s head, going against guidelines from the National Institutes of Health and the mother’s desperate pleas for a C-section. The Daily Mail reports that a complaint filed in the Superior Court of Shelton County, Connecticut, on July 1 describes how the baby had “no cry, poor color, poor Apgars scores, was limp… and had swelling of his head consistent with subgaleal hemorrhage” when he was finally delivered via an episiotomy at Greenwich Hospital in Connecticut. He was rushed to the neonatal intensive care unit at nearby Yale New Haven Hospital, where he was intubated and in critical condition before he died an hour later. Dr. Jay Matut Dr. Jay Matut of Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich, Connecticut. (Photos: Google Maps/Greenwich Hospital) Mackenzie was 40 weeks and three days pregnant when she arrived at the hospital on Feb. 17, and...