‘He could have died’: family calls for better jaundice testing of black and Asian babies

Jaxson's symptoms were initially dismissed by health staff in a case that could have had fatal consequences

Soon after her son Jaxson was born, Lauren Clarke spotted that his eyes were yellow and bloodshot. We kept asking if he had jaundice, but each time we were told to keep feeding him and just put Jaxson in front of a window," she says.

It was only when Clarke was readmitted six days later with an infection that Jaxson's jaundice was detected by a midwife. By this time, his levels were becoming dangerously high.