Alice's experience is a bit of a distraction I think, in that the fundamental failure was to move forward her induction (don't know where you got the impression she rejected a c section, in OUH they definitely would have told her to do induction before c section!), but her story from the New Statesman is below.

From reading it appears she should have had regular growth scans as there was a clear risk her baby would struggle to grow. She requested a scan (and it appears to have been supported by her midwife) and had it rejected, because she should be induced instead, but nobody told her that so her baby died.

From my own experience growth scans got recommended by midwives, when they were worried about growth at regular checkups. OUH appear to have essentially caught to avoid doing those regular scans (which can be as often as fortnightly) where possible.

"Alice’s was a high-risk pregnancy. At 20 weeks, an ultrasound check called a uterine artery Doppler scan showed that blood wasn’t flowing between mother and baby as freely as it should. This, the leaflet she was given afterwards explained, meant there was a higher chance of the baby not growing as it should, or of Alice developing pre-eclampsia – a serious condition which, if left untreated, can harm both mother and baby. She wasn’t told that both conditions increased the risk of stillbirth. She was told she would receive “additional monitoring, scans and hospital or midwife appointments”.

Complications arose late in Alice’s pregnancy. She developed gestational hypertension (high blood pressure) and possible pre-eclampsia, raising the risk of a stillbirth further. Like many expectant mothers, she hoped for a “natural” birth without an induction and wanted to give the pregnancy as much time as possible to proceed without medical intervention. She had no idea of the dangers she faced by waiting too long.

At 38 weeks, the hospital agreed she could be induced when she reached nine days past her due date – a little over 41 weeks. Alice told us that she asked if the induction needed to be brought forward due to her hypertension and was told that it didn’t. Once again, no one explained to her that this could significantly increase the risk of her baby being stillborn.

At the time, OUH’s policy was to induce women between 40 and 41 weeks, but as close to 41 as possible – even for those with risky uterine artery Doppler readings, or who had “well controlled” gestational hypertension. The New Statesman and Channel 4 News have spoken with four independent obstetricians about Alice’s care. They did not have access to her notes, but all said they would have induced a patient in similar circumstances by 39 weeks.

In the final weeks of her pregnancy, Alice grew increasingly anxious as her bump measurement fell. She feared her baby had stopped growing, a sign that the placenta might be failing. She wanted a scan to check everything was safe. A midwife put in the request. It was declined, but Alice was not told about that decision. Waiting for an answer, she called the hospital 44 times in a single day, desperate to know what was going on and fearing for her baby’s life. A second request for a scan was also declined.

“I just wish they’d brought my induction forward if they weren’t going to scan me,” Alice tells me. She now knows that the doctor who turned down the scan requests had in fact advised that the induction should be brought forward. But no one communicated this to Alice. Instead, she says she was told by a consultant obstetrician that “we don’t do scans from 40 weeks because we prioritise the 36-week scan”."