A woman whose premature baby arrived and died on a waiting-room floor at Wollongong Hospital has joined calls for better treatment of women suffering miscarriages in the state's hospitals. The plea come days after a woman revealed she was sent to a toilet cubicle at Maitland Hospital to dispose of her 14-week-old foetus, casting doubt on the effectiveness of a State Government directive that all women suffering a miscarriage be immediately moved to the maternity ward. Barrack Heights 21-year-old Amanda Booker was 17 weeks' pregnant with her second child in July 2007 when she telephoned Wollongong Hospital with contractions three minutes apart.She says a doctor told her to get to the hospital immediately, but upon arrival she was left to wait for more than an hour."I was in labour, I was in agonising pain. I was clutching my stomach and I kept going up to the nurse saying, 'I'm really in a lot of pain - can someone please get me to a doctor'," Miss Booker said."I was sort of hushed back to my seat and told just to wait for the doctor and the doctor was coming."Miss Booker says she gave birth while crossing from the waiting room into the hospital's triage room, with the door still ajar and a group of men who had been involved in a pub brawl looking on from outside."The nurse called me to the triage room and I said, 'something's coming out' ... out came a bag and I could see my baby inside it," she said. "It fell to the floor ... I've never forgotten the noise it made. "The men (in the waiting room) stopped their mucking around and ... looked quite concerned. I've never seen men look compassionate before."Miss Booker said she was "haunted" by the memory of her dead boy, who was buried with a clear "dint" on his head showing where he fell on the hospital floor. She wants the Government to strengthen protocols for women suspected of miscarrying.The protocols were developed after an inquiry into the case of Jana Horska, who miscarried in a toilet at Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital in September 2007.Miss Booker said last month's incident at Maitland, the third at that hospital in less than a year, showed the directive to transfer suspected miscarriages immediately to the maternity ward wasn't working."If a woman turns up and she's going to lose her baby or go into early-term labour she should be rushed immediately to the birthing unit to give birth or to lose her baby. "(It should be) in a safe environment where there's no noise, where there's no people gawking at them, where there's no babies hitting the floor."The experience of a pre-term birth is horrific enough without it being more embarrassing or demeaning."A spokeswoman for South Eastern Sydney Illawarra Health said medical records showed Ms Booker was triaged "immediately upon arrival"."The patient was then moved to a single room in the emergency department where she was attended to by a doctor within 30 minutes and by a social worker 30 minutes later," the spokeswoman said. She said the hospital met the new protocols and was regularly audited for compliance.