Amie Upton was banned from NHS maternity wards and mortuaries in Leeds after keeping babies' bodies at her house. She ran a baby loss support and funeral service, Florrie's Army, named after her stillborn baby in 2017. Zoe Ward said her son Bleu, who died of brain damage at three weeks, was expected to be kept in a professional setting including a refrigerated cot. Ward said she found Bleu propped in a baby bouncer watching cartoons in Upton's living room, with pets and another deceased baby present. Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust barred Upton from mortuaries and maternity wards in spring. Upton said she had only ever had two complaints.
I realised it were Bleu and she [Upton] says: Come in, we're watching PJ Masks.' There's a cat scratcher in the corner and I can hear a dog barking and there was another [dead] baby on the sofa. It wasn't a nice sight. I rang my mum and I'm saying: This ain't right' I was screaming down the phone [saying]: It's mucky, it's dirty, he can't stay here.'
Amie Upton has been banned from NHS maternity wards and mortuaries in the city after keeping babies' bodies at her house in circumstances that a grandmother of another baby compared to a horror film. Upton, 38, told the BBC she had only ever had two complaints while running a baby loss support and funeral service, Florrie's Army, named after her own baby who was stillborn in 2017. When contacted by the Guardian, Upton said she did not want to comment.
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