If you believe your child has been seriously injured or killed due to a preventable birth injury in New Jersey or the Philadelphia metropolitan area, please visit Weiss & Paarz P.C. today.
One glorious day you find out you’re going to have a baby! You spend nine wonderful months planning, designing the baby’s room, picking out just the perfect name for your new boy or girl, praying that your new bundle of joy will be born healthy with all 10 fingers and all 10 toes. The day finally arrives for you to give birth. You breathe the way you were taught, push when you should and rest when you’re told. Then, silence. No cries from the baby. An anxious look on the doctor’s face as the baby is whisked away for care. Something has gone wrong. Your worst nightmare has come true.
It is tragic. A poor, defenseless little child is damaged at birth before he or she has even had a chance to meet you face to face.
What happened? What could have gone wrong? It could be a case of birth injury malpractice and here’s why. Even though doctors and nurses try to take every precaution when delivering a baby, mistakes can happen. The results can range from a mild skin irritation to having a permanent disability that will limit that child’s’ quality of life to one in a wheel chair being tended by caregivers around the clock. Worse yet, those mistakes can result in death.
Negligence that occurs during the pregnancy and delivery process includes improper prescribing of medications, failure to monitor and respond to fetal distress, improper use of delivery instruments or failure to provide oxygen to a newborn, to name a few. The resulting injuries are wide-ranging:
· Soft tissue injuries
· Skin irritations
· Bruising with forceps
· Facial paralysis
· Infections
· Skull or clavicle fractures
· Bleeding in the skull or around the brain
· Seizures
· Cerebral Palsy (brain injury)
· Erbs’ Palsy (neck/shoulder nerve damage)
· Still birth
Once the realization of what has happened sets in, you will want to take steps to ensure your new bundle of joy has the best available care and treatment possible. That is when you should consult with an experienced birth injury attorney.
While you are the expert when it comes to loving your child and wanting the best for him or her, you need a legal expert to manage the maze of complicated details surrounding the birth injury sustained by your child. Having a legal expert on your side means you will be assured of having the financial means necessary to give your baby the best quality of life possible with the best medical care available.
Having a legal expert on your side means you don’t have to live the nightmare forever.
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