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January 18, 2023

What Are Birth Injuries?

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Birth injuries damage that occurs as a result of physical pressure during the birthing process usually through the birth canal; which means during the process of giving birth. Many newborns have minor injuries during birth, however there are some types of birth injuries that should not happen.

A difficult delivery at the risk of injury to the baby can occur with extremely large fetuses, which means that if a baby weighs more than 10 pounds to 11 pounds there your doctor. is going to recommend a cesarean delivery. Injury is also more likely when the fetus is lying in an abnormal position in the uterus before birth, such as being breach.

Birth injuries are most commonly due to natural forces of labor and delivery however sometimes doctors are old-school and instead of doing a C-section they choose to hold the fetus out using forceps which is a surgical instrument with mounted edges that fit around the fetus’s head. However bringing the fetus down from high in the birth canal of warships had a high risk of causing birth injuries and is usually not used in the early stages of birth. Typically forceps are only used when the babies near the end of exiting the ventricle canal.

But there are some birth injuries that are extremely common. And sometimes these birth injuries are indeed caused by natural forces, but other times they are caused by negligence on your physician part. If you feel that your child has sustained a birth injury or dominant disability from a birth injury due to negligence on your physician’s part, you should reach out to a personal injury attorney in Scottsdale, AZ. 

Facial nerve injury is evident when the newborn cries because his face will appear lopsided and asymmetric. This injury is caused by pressure against the nerve due to the way the fetus was positioned in the uterus before birth, or the child being pressed against the mother’s pelvis during delivery, or forceps being used to deliver the child. The brachial plexus is a group of large nerves located between the neck and the shoulder which leads to each arm. During a difficult delivery one or both of the baby’s arms can be structured into these nerves. This can cause weakness or paralysis in a part or all of the baby’s arms and hands.

If you think that your physician is at fault for your baby’s injury, then you should reach out to an attorney to talk about it. Even if it is a common birth injury but it could have been prevented then there is signs of negligence that your physician deserves to own responsibly for.

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