C-SECTION BIRTH INJURY ATTORNEY
EXCEPTIONAL REPRESENTATION FOR FAMILIES ACROSS THE NATION
When a mother cannot deliver a child naturally, a cesarean section (C-section) should be performed in order to deliver the child. A C-section involves making an incision into the woman’s abdomen and uterus in order to deliver the child.
Failure to perform this life-saving procedure can result in serious injury or death to the unborn baby. Sometimes medical practitioners use forceps or vacuums during C-sections, which, if improperly performed, can cause permanent injury.
If your child sustained a birth injury because of a delayed or improperly executed C-section, contact a lawyer from Baby Birth Injury Lawyers today.
What Injuries Can Result from Delayed or Improper C-section?
- Skull fractures
- Facial nerve palsy
- Cephalohematoma
- Brain damage
- Cerebral palsy
- Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE)
- Traumatic head compression, i.e. subgaleal hematoma
If your child is suffering from a birth injury that you believe is related to a delayed or improperly performed C-section, our nationally recognized team at Baby Birth Injury Lawyers can help you. We are not afraid to stand up to the powerful health care industry in order to obtain justice for the families we represent. Let our baby birth injury attorneys help you seek the fair compensation your child is entitled to so that you and your family don’t have to worry about your child’s lifetime medical and attendant care needs.
How to Prove Negligence in Your C-Section Birth Injury Case
When it comes to pursuing a birth injury claim for a C-Section injury, it is not as simple as filing the claim and collecting compensation. There are many steps to take and many elements that must be proven in order to achieve a successful result.
Working with a lawyer can help you establish the proof needed to build your claim. Below are some necessary steps that must be taken to establish and prove negligence.
Establishing negligence, or a breach of the standard of care requires evidence that an act or omission took place that a reasonable party would not have performed or failed to perform in the given situation. Some examples include:
- Ignoring excessive uterine contractions with or without Pitocin
- Failing to treat and/or monitor a mother’s hypertension or gestational diabetes
- Allowing a risky vaginal birth after c-section (VBAC)
- Allowing protracted labor or arrest of descent
- Failure to perform proper resuscitation of the newborn
- Failure to treat hypoglycemia in the newborn
- Failure to order hypothermic therapy/cooling of a newborn with seizures or other neurological signs and/or symptoms
- Misuse of birth-assistive tools such as a vacuum or forceps
- Failure to monitor for signs of fetal distress during C-section
- Failure to order an emergency cesarean section
- Use of inappropriate or dangerous birthing techniques
In addition, we need to prove a connection between the breach of the standard of care and the injuries your child has sustained.
The third element that must be proven is that serious and substantial damages did occur to you or the child during the labor and delivery or the neonatal hospitalization.
Baby Birth Injury Lawyers: High-Quality Legal Representation, Compassionate Care
Accepting birth injury cases from all over the nation, our baby birth injury attorneys are proud of our track record of successful results. Regardless of the complex aspects of your birth injury case, we are confident that our resources and skills will allow us to effectively evaluate and determine whether we can help you.
