A MUM says she was left screaming in pain after her bowel pushed its way out of her body following a caesarean section operation.

Kelly Maynard was rushed back to the Royal Bolton Hospital just 24 hours after undergoing the emergency procedure to deliver baby daughter Rosie-Anne. The 31-year-old said a scar had not been stitched up correctly after the birth, leaving her disfigured and in constant pain.

The Royal Bolton Hospital has now launched an investigation.

Ms Maynard, who lives in Bradford Street, Bolton, said: “I have got a scar you would not believe, it’s disgusting because it’s been opened three times, it’ s vile.

“It’s permanent damage — all because my perineum wall wasn’t sewn. I know there are complications to a procedure but your bowel coming out of your body is not a complication of a C-section, it’ s unheard of, it never happens. Scars can open up, that’s fine, but my bowel was moving around inside me and pushed its way out of the opening.”

Ms Maynard, also mother to 12-year-old Kayden, Mia, aged four and Daisy, aged three, says she will always feel conscious about her body following the operation. She said: “When you have a C-section the scar is supposed to be a tiny straight line. Mine looks like Frankenstein has got hold of it, it looks like a smiley face. It’s a mess. I will probably never go abroad because of my stomach.

And Ms Maynard, who runs KDM Mobile Beauty says, she was also left traumatised by her experiences at the hospital. She said: “When I first got out of hospital I couldn’t sleep, I kept having nightmares. The day it happened all my kids were sitting in the living room and they saw my bowel come out. My husband had to beg for an ambulance and when I got there I had to wait for four hours to see a surgeon. I was there screaming in pain, I can’t describe it. All the nerves are open and no painkiller was taking the pain away.

“At the time it was happening all I could feel was crushing inside my body until it got so bad I said ‘I’m going to have to go back in’.

My husband was told there was no ambulance and to get me in the car, and when he checked my bowel had collapsed , it was outside my body.

“If he had taken me in the car I would have ended up with a colostomy bag, because my bowel would have died.”

“I feel miserable, just miserable, the pain they have left me in is indescribable.”

Ms Maynard attended an ante-natal appointment on September 22 last year, and despite being ‘doubled up’ in pain was told to go home and call back if things got worse.

“I don’t know if it could have got any worse, “said Ms Maynard.

Six days later she suffered complications involving her placenta and had to be rushed to the Royal Bolton for the emergency C-section.

She took Rosie-Anne home but just 24 hours later, her bowel prolapsed and she again had to be rushed in for emergency treatment. Ms Maynard added: “They said I could have my baby with me, but I was so poorly I would have had to watch other women looking after her. I had to make the decision that she was better off with her dad.”

Ms Maynard has since held a meeting with hospital bosses and PALS but a recording that she believed was being made of the conversation was not successful.

She has not received a written report which the hospital says it has sent to her. She continued: “I’m just getting fobbed off — for this to happen to me is not right.”

A spokesman for Bolton NHS Foundation Trust said: “We are sorry that Ms Maynard is in this situation when she should be enjoying her new baby.

“We can assure her that the only reason the tape recording of our meeting with her was not available was because it did not record properly due to a technical issue. This has been rectified.

“However we did write to her with a detailed account of the meeting. We are making contact with Ms Maynard to arrange a further meeting to answer her questions relating to her care.

“We recognise that her treatment was not as she would have hoped, and apologise for the upset and distress this has caused.

“We are thoroughly investigating her treatment and will discuss this again at length, at her convenience.”