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Birth Injury Resource Center
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How to Navigate Your Child’s Birth Injury
Navigating the aftermath of a birth injury is a challenging journey, one that no family anticipates or prepares for. Birth injuries, often the result of medical negligence, can have long-lasting impacts on both the child and the family. Understanding what birth injuries are, recognizing the signs, and knowing the steps to take can help parents…
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Was My Child’s Lifelong Birth Injury Caused by a Doctor’s Negligent Act?
Bringing a child into the world should be a joyous occasion, but for some families, it can lead to lifelong challenges and heartache due to birth injuries. When a child suffers a birth injury, parents are often left grappling with a multitude of questions and emotions. One of the most haunting questions that may arise…
Birth Injury and Wrongful Death
Expectant mothers require exceptional levels of care from medical professionals, for both mother and child. When a diagnosis is missed or improperly made, one or both patients could suffer severe lifelong injury or death. Complications of pregnancy do happen, but with prompt medical care, do not frequently cause long-term issues. But when those complications do…
Preeclampsia Birth Injury and Wrongful Death
Preeclampsia is a severe condition affecting both mother and child. Left untreated, it could result in lifelong birth injury to the child, including damage to key organ systems or cerebral palsy. Additionally, the mother is at risk for severe complications, including death. Treatment of preeclampsia can yield a happy, healthy baby, with few residual long-term…
Preeclampsia Wrongful Death and Birth Injury
Preeclampsia is a severe condition affecting both mother and child. Left untreated, it could result in lifelong birth injury to the child, including damage to key organ systems or cerebral palsy. Additionally, the mother is at risk for severe complications, including death. Treatment of preeclampsia can yield a happy, healthy baby, with few residual long-term…
Cerebral Palsy Birth Injury
Cerebral palsy is a mostly preventable condition that occurs in roughly one out of every 300 children. It can result from a brain injury or damage to the central nervous system either in utero, during labor/delivery or shortly after the birth of a child. Cerebral palsy is actually a series of disorders that affect the…
Brachial Plexus Birth Injury
Brachial Plexus injuries occur during childbirth and are the result of a condition known as shoulder dystocia. Damage to the upper plexus can cause brachial plexus palsy (also known as Erb’s palsy). Damage to the lower plexus can cause a condition known as Klumpke’s palsy. Brachial plexus birth injuries are often the result of negligence…