A first-time mother was denied a hot meal by an NHS hospital despite being at the bedside of her newborn baby who was fighting for her life because she was not breastfeeding.
Sophie Price, 22, was stunned when staff refused to give her a meal while her daughter Florence, who she had given birth to at the same hospital just five days previously, was being treated on a paediatric ward at Grange University Hospital in Cwmbran, Torfaen.
Ms Price, from Newport, was told that she was no longer classed as a patient at the hospital as she was not breastfeeding, so would
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