Gestational diabetes is a type of diabetes that develops during pregnancy. Like type 1 and type 2 diabetes, gestational diabetes affects the body’s ability to control blood sugar levels. Gestational diabetes can be managed with diet, exercise, and medication. However, if it is left undiagnosed…
A Cesarean section (C-section) may not have been part of your birth plan. However, you depended on the nurses and doctors attending to you during labor to recommend a C-section if it was necessary to keep you and your baby safe. An unplanned or emergency…
You trusted your doctor. Even after your child’s birth, when symptoms of a potential birth injury became apparent, you may have been reluctant to acknowledge that your child could have been hurt by your obstetrician’s negligence. But Medical Negligence Happens Not every injury suffered at…
Before your child can recover damages in a birth injury lawsuit, you are going to have to prove what caused your child’s injuries and the value of those injuries. This will require you to provide evidence about what happened to your child, about your child’s…
Right now you are thankful to have health insurance. It provides your child, and your family, with financial help for some of the medical procedures and rehabilitation therapies that your child needs after suffering a brain injury at birth. But, you are still incurring costs….
You left the comfort of your own home to give birth at Jewish Hospital so that you could give your child the best possible start. You wanted your baby to be delivered safely. Unfortunately, a doctor’s mistake prevented that from happening and instead your child…