A grieving mother has hit out at the John Radcliffe Hospital after her baby died during delivery.

Shankari Wilford said more should have been done to highlight potential problems over the large size of her son Freddie.

Freddie died two days after he was born at the Oxford hospital on June 13 last year.

His shoulders had become stuck during delivery, and the air and blood supply to his brain was cut off, an inquest heard at Oxford Coroners' Court.

But assistant deputy coroner Dr Richard Whittington said: "I don't believe there is anything to suggest negligence or lack of care."

He recorded that Freddie died as a consequence of delay in delivering his shoulders.

After the hearing, Mrs Wilford, 37, of Wantage Road, Wallingford, said: "I believe that if I had gone to a different hospital our son would be alive today."

Dr Ingrid Granne, a specialist registrar in obstetrics, said Freddie's birth was affected by the condition shoulder dystocia, where the shoulders become stuck during delivery.

She tried four specialised manoeuvres to free him, but he was born without a heartbeat and not breathing.

On the two previous occasions she had dealt with the condition, both babies had survived.

A spokesman for the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust said Freddie's death was the only one due to shoulder dystocia out of more than 24,285 births at ORH hospitals from January 2004 to last December.