Your baby is the one who is hurt. It is your child who will need medical treatment and it is your child who will suffer the physical and emotional pain of a birth injury. However, your baby is unable to understand the court system, file…
You may have heard scary words being used by your nurses or doctors during labor or delivery. Terms such as fetal distress, hypoxia, asphyxia, non-reassuring fetal status, fetal tachycardia, bradycardia, repetitive variable decelerations, low biophysical profile, and late decelerations could have meant that your baby was in…
Here’s what you know right now. You have a newborn baby who has been diagnosed with a birth injury. It is up to you, as a new parent, to protect your child’s rights, to do what you can to help manage your child’s current medical…
Between your baby’s neck and shoulders is a complicated network of nerves known as the brachial plexus. These nerves control muscles and feeling in the, shoulder, arm, hand, and fingers. Most people don’t have to think too much about the brachial plexus. However, if your…
The injury your child suffered at birth may be a lifelong injury. Whether your baby suffers physical or cognitive disabilities, or a combination of the two, it may impact your child every day for the rest of his life. Your baby can’t yet understand what…
When a newborn baby develops an intracranial hemorrhage, or brain bleed, it can be a very dangerous and terrifying situation. Lifelong disabilities, or even death, could be the result. However, not all brain hemorrhages are the same. Bleeding can occur in different parts of the…