Category Archives: birth injuries
Birth, Informed Consent, and Birth Injuries
Recently, SELF featured an important article on birth injuries and the informed consent process that accompanies the birth process. Specifically, the author who wrote it describes having forceps used on her during labor. Assisted vaginal deliveries with forceps are sometimes used when there are concerns about the baby’s heart rate, the head stops moving… Read More »
$3 Million Verdict Issued To Family Due To Serious Birth Injuries
In September 2017, a jury awarded one family $3 million against an obstetrician who forcefully pulled a baby out by his head during delivery, causing serious birth injuries (permanent nerve damage to the baby’s shoulder). In forcefully pulling the baby out when his shoulder was trapped behind his mother’s pelvis, the doctor ended up… Read More »
Judge Awards Family $42 Million for Birth Injury Complications
A family whose baby suffered severe brain injuries during birth was recently awarded $42 million by a judge as a result of the many medical, physical, emotional, and other disabilities he will face for the rest of his life. The injuries stem from an incident in 2012 that occurred at the Keystone Women’s Health… Read More »
Birth Injuries Aren’t Limited To Babies
While many people have heard of babies suffering from terrible birth injuries that affect them throughout their lives, in reality, it isn’t just children who are affected by birth injuries, but also millions of women each year, and these birth injuries tend to go completely undiagnosed and untreated. Your child going through fetal distress… Read More »
