Has negligent medical care of your delivery caused trauma to your infant? Medical malpractice in the area of child delivery is unfortunate, but occurs frequently.  These medical mistakes can cause many birth trauma related problems such as, cerebral palsy, brain damage, paralysis and many other life term complications. 

Pregnancy complications during labor can result in birth trauma from minor to severe or even death of the infant.  When the physician does not take action to relieve patient's distress during the birthing process and use a standard care to provide the best outcome of delivering during a complex problem, then the doctor is liable for their decisions.

Are you faced with your baby being mentally retarded from the doctor's neglect during the delivery? If you or a loved one has had an infant that has signs of birth injuries or trauma,

Some Common Injuries During Birth Delivery Process:

• Bone fractures
• Spinal cord damage
• Oxygen deprivation
• Spinal cord damage
• Forceps injury
• Cerebral Palsy

During a stressful labor, an infant may suffer a lack of oxygen. One of the most severe birth injuries are the ones affecting the infant's brain. Oxygen deprivation or bleeding within the skull has a devastating effects and may result in mental retardation, autism or epilepsy.  This type of birth injury may have been the result of the doctor's failure to respond in an efficient manner or possibility improperly delivering your son or daughter.  Time, decision making and delivering your baby are crucial. Any of these factors neglected can lead to oxygen deprivation and brain damage.

Did You Doctor Fail to perform any of these essential standards of care?

• Failure to respond to bleeding
• Delay in ordering C-section
• Misuse of vacuum extractors of forceps
• Poor care of newborn immediately after birth

When your baby is delivered, the doctor should suction the newborn's mouth as soon as the head is delivered, only if there is thick meconium staining or fetal distress. Experts now recommend NO deep suctioning of the trachea if there are no signs of prenatal fetal distress for fear of causing aspiration pneumonia of the newborn.