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A brain-damaged 10-week-old baby died in her father’s arms after doctors sent the family home with Calpol and painkillers.

Little Noa Goodman tragically died two days after receiving medical advice at Barnet General Hospital in London.

After the newborn started turning blue and having trouble breathing, she was rushed to A&E.

After spending five weeks in various hospitals, including in intensive care wards, the boy was diagnosed with brain damage before being allowed to go home.

A month later, the little girl came down with a fever, and during a checkup, doctors told mother Lois Goodman to give her baby Calpol and take her home, but Noa died just two days later.

Lois, 42, who lives in Edgware, London, with her husband Daniel, 44, and their three other children, Ayton, two, Bella, eight, and Lior, 11, said they were told the painkillers would solve the problem.

The mother said she screamed when she saw her daughter cradled in her husband’s arms and remembers her eldest son, Lior, who was four at the time, trying to reassure her by saying, “Mom, I’m Superman, I can save her.”

Lois and her husband had therapy to come to terms with the pain of losing their daughter. But Lois wanted to act on her own, so she trained to become a life coach and started a podcast to help others through difficult times.

“Maybe my daughter was here for a reason, and it wasn’t supposed to be for long; I wouldn’t be who I am today without her,” Lois said.

“I felt let down by the NHS for a long time.

“But I also recognize that everything happens for a reason, and everyone is where they’re supposed to be at the perfect time.”

Lois went to University College London Hospital with Daniel for Noa’s planned caesarean delivery on September 1, 2016, but said she felt something was off.

“It was my third child at the time, and I had already had two C-sections, but I felt, from my third trimester, that something was a little off, but I didn’t know what, and nobody had chosen anything. on the scans or anything,” he said.

When Noa was born, things soon took a turn for the worse.

Lois explained: “When Noa was born, she had a funny cry and then there was a little bit of worry.

“They (the doctors) checked it but they gave it to us, and then when we went up to the recovery room, it wasn’t turning on.

“She wasn’t really breathing and she was turning a little blue and one of the midwives noticed and they took her straight to the neonatal unit.”

Despite having a feeling that something was wrong, Lois was surprised to see her daughter’s health deteriorate.

She said: “It was a very, very big shock. I did not expect that she would be in intensive care, and before that I had two healthy children. So it was a huge shock.”

Doctors at University College London Hospital gave Noa a brain scan and didn’t think anything was wrong, but to be sure, after 11 days in their care, they transferred her to Great Ormond Street Hospital.

There, to the surprise of Lois and her family, it was revealed that their daughter had brain damage.

“The specialists reviewed the brain scan and found that there was very, very little damage to the moving part of his brain.

“The movement part controlled his sucking and swallowing reflex and breathing. They actually had no idea what was wrong, but she also had a very fast respiratory rate.

“So he had a feeding tube and just had constant testing and we eventually found out that this was all caused by brain damage.”

Noa was then transferred to Barnet General Hospital, where she would remain for three weeks.

She said: “They really didn’t know what they were doing, the staff were very friendly but they had no idea how to deal with her.

“We wanted him to stay on Great Ormond Street, but he couldn’t.”

Noa was released and taken home, which Lois said was a “very stressful and difficult time.”

After five weeks of being home, at 10 weeks old, Noa had a high temperature of about 40 degrees, so Lois took her back to Barnet General Hospital, but she was not satisfied with the level of care.

She said: “I took her back and they checked her, but they didn’t really check her properly.

“They didn’t do a chest X-ray, and this is the hospital where he lived for about three weeks. All her notes were there.

“They said, give her Calpol, take her home and bring her back if things get worse.

“They sent us home, and it was very boring.”

After returning home, Lois was “half relieved and half knew something was really wrong,” but Noa’s condition worsened.

On November 13, Lois was feeling exhausted, so she and Daniel agreed to take Noa to the hospital the next morning, but she died that night in her father’s arms.

Lois said: “I was getting ready to take her in the morning and my husband sat on the couch, giving her her last meal.

“While I was getting ready, she called me saying the milk had stopped coming in, and as soon as I walked into that room, she was dead.

“I saw that he was gone, I just knew. I saw his eyes wide open, I could see that she was not breathing and I screamed ”.

Daniel began performing CPR while Lois called an ambulance which took Noa to A&E, where she was pronounced dead.

Lois still remembers four-year-old Loir trying to calm her down.

She recalled: “I remember my oldest son saying to me, ‘Mom, I’m Superman, I can save her,’ but I knew she was gone and I couldn’t save her, like her mother, and it just killed me.”

After Noa’s death, the couple began therapy to help with grief.

Lois said: “It really helped us up to a point.

“I knew I had to move on. I can’t stay here. I can’t stay stuck. I will always grieve for my daughter. I always miss her, but I need to move on.”

While the NHS did not confirm that Noa’s death was caused by medical negligence, Lois’s lawyer claimed that Barnet General Hospital failed in its duty.

A spokesperson for the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Barnet General Hospital, said: “We would like to take this opportunity to apologize again for Ms Goodman’s poor experience, which was investigated through our formal complaints process.

“Following Noa’s death, we conducted a full and thorough investigation and while no issues of care or service delivery were found, we recognize that our communications with Noa’s family could have been clearer and more timely.

“As a result, we have made significant improvements in this area.”