Boy awarded £7m over hospital errors at birth I felt angry against the hospital. If they had done their job properly we would have normal and healthy child. Mrs Scott, 36, launched legal proceedings against the Royal Bournemouth Hospital Trust in Dorset before Charlie's first birthday. It is believed that the umbilical cord wrapped around his shoulders for more than 20 minutes in the womb before midwives noticed. If the problem had been spotted, Mrs Scott could have been given an emergency Caesarean section. As it was Charlie was starved of oxygen and it took 55 minutes before he was able to breath on his own. He was diagnosed with spastic quadriplegic hemiplegic athetoid cerebral palsy at six-months-old. He cannot walk, talk, sit up, or drink without assistance and will need care for the rest of his life. The trust has spent 12 years denying clinical negligence, resulting in a protracted legal dispute. They finally caved in two years ago after Mrs Scott's legal team hired medical experts to forensically go over the birth and prove the midwives had made a mistake. The trust admitted that Charlie's brain injury would have been avoided had Mrs Scott been cared for properly during labour. Since then the trust has been negotiating with Mrs Scott's solicitor over a compensation payout which has now been settled in court, it emerged yesterday. "I was mortified to think that through no fault of my own that my son had cerebral palsy," she said. Medical experts have spent the last 14 years trying to establish what happened and what went wrong. In the end the hospital trust admitted liability but only because I refused to back down. They should have admitted it a lot sooner because they had been in the wrong and not have me battling this for most of my adult life. Mrs Scott had a normal and healthy pregnancy until she went to the Royal Bournemouth Hospital in 1998 after going into labour. She said: "When Charlie was born I knew something was wrong. He was white, the colour of a piece of paper and all his extremities were blue; his lips, fingernails, everything. It was 55 minutes before he breathed on his own, it all kind of happened in slow motion. If they had transferred to Poole hospital for specialist treatment the odds are it never would have happened. They had procedures in place for emergencies but basically none of it ever happened. We decided to take action against the hospital when Charlie was nine-months-old because I knew that something had happened to make him disabled. I adore Charlie but life is very hard, he needs constant care and attention, so I did it because I want him to be looked after in the future. Social services have been brilliant, however every time we need something we have to be assessed and it's so drawn out. We never really discussed how much we might get because nobody really knew, but I wanted to be able to say 'Charlie needs a new wheelchair, let's go and get him one'. It was a really weird feeling, it was just so strange to know that after all that time and all the fighting and the appointments with medics, experts, and consultants, that that was it. My message to others would be don't give up, no matter how hard it gets. Mrs Scott has four other sons; Spencer, 12, Harrison, seven, and Austin and Willis, both six, who Charlie enjoys playing with. Paula Shobbrook, director of nursing and midwifery at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital, said: "We apologise sincerely to Charles and his family for his injuries and provide him with some security and the care he requires for the future."