A GRIEVING mum has been left heartbroken at discovering a hospital told her the wrong gender of her baby which died 18 weeks into her pregnancy.

Chloe Turner, of King’s Road, Dovercourt went to her routine antenatal check at Harwich’s Fryatt Hospital - but when her midwife couldn’t find a heartbeat she was rushed to Colchester General Hospital.

There she said she had a scan and was told there was no movement and no heartbeat.

She said: “They told me it was a girl - we named her Willow.

“They gave me the tablet to induce labour and sent me home.”

But as nothing happened, Chloe had to go back to hospital where she says she spent 11 days as they tried to induce labour.

She added: “They had to suck the baby out, they said it would be the safest way - the baby came out in fragments.

“It was awful.”

Chloe, who has two daughters aged six and two, said the family had a funeral for Willow and grieved the loss.

But at a meeting last Friday to talk about the findings into why the baby died in May, she was told her baby was actually a boy.

Chloe said: “It’s very distressing, I can’t get my head around it.

“It doesn’t matter if the baby was a boy or a girl, I would have loved it the same.

“But it feels like I’m losing another baby.”

The sad event comes after Chloe lost a baby 70 minutes after giving birth in 2013.

Last year Colchester Hospital admitted her baby girl, Lola-Rae, could have survived if a caesarean section was carried out in the hour and 20 minutes after her heart rate first dropped.

Chloe said: “They have said again this time they will learn from it.

“But how much more do they want to learn from me?”

A spokesman for Colchester Hospital said: “We are very sorry for the distress Miss Turner and her family have experienced.

“We have taken steps to make sure this doesn’t happen again by ensuring that anyone who asks for the gender of their unborn child understands that the answer given will not be categoric.”