A NEWPORT mum discovered she has the superbug MRSA after an operation at the Royal Gwent Hospital.

Now Lucy Mills, 24, of Aberthaw Drive, Alway, says she is considering suing the hospital.

The mum-of-four was admitted to the Royal Gwent on January 6 for a pre-planned Caesarean section.

Days later, she says, she received a telephone call from the hospital saying she had the superbug MRSA. Her baby is unaffected.

Miss Mills claimed: "On January 10, the morning I was discharged, they took a swab from my wound, then two days later they called and said I'd got MRSA and should go to my GP.

"I knew nothing about the bug except what I'd heard on TV. I have four young children, and Oliver is just two weeks old. I was scared about the effect on them.

"I haven't been able to concentrate on enjoying my first few weeks with Oliver because of the worry."

Now she says she is waiting to start a week's course of antibiotics which will involve her being in the Royal Gwent Hospital all day and allowed home at night.

On Friday evening, Miss Mills asked social services for help with her three older children, aged three, five and six, while she was in hospital having the treatment and they were taken to foster carers to be looked after for the week.

She said: "I haven't had the chance to come home and get on with things with my children and now I am really missing them.

"They are upset at having to go away and that upsets me. Now I am worrying about things and it has just turned everything upside down.

"I am angry and it is not fair on my kids.

"They had five days away from me when I was in anyway, and now they will be away longer."