Birth Injuries & Birth Defects

Our Michigan birth injury lawyers represent clients for several types of birth injuries and birth defects. Many types of injuries can occur during pregnancy, labor or after birth. Birth trauma is an injury to the child during the delivery. Caring for a child with a birth injury, caused by the negligence, costs an unfathomable amount over the lifetime of the child. Filing a medical malpractice claim through can result in much needed financial assistant for medical expenses and other costs.

Medical error can cause birth injuries or can increase their severity or permanence. Medical errors include: failing to anticipate birth complications, such as your baby's twisted umbilical cord; failure to respond appropriately to bleeding; failure to respond to fetal distress; delay in ordering a cesarean section when medically necessary; misuse of forceps or a vacuum extractor during delivery; or poor after-care after.

Injuries can occur during the birth of a child. A child can suffer permanent brain injury, Cerebral Palsy, nerve injury or even death as well as other complications later in life like learning difficulties, emotional difficulties and mental retardation.

One of the common birth injuries is shoulder dystocia which can be caused during delivery by a physician's improper use of forceps. Besides pain, the injury results a limited ability to move a hand or arm. Often a baby suffering from shoulder dystocia cannot lift their arm above the shoulder level. Other common birth injuries are Erb's Palsy and Brachial Plexus injuries.

Lack of oxygen to the brain during delivery can cause an anoxic or mechanical injury. Anoxic injuries are those caused by a reduced oxygen supply during delivery. The same kind of brain damage can be produced by a physical trauma during birth. This type of physical trauma is known as a "mechanical injury," such as a fractured skull.

Indicators that a fetus has an higher risk of birth injury include a difficult, prolonged labor, improper use of medication by the pregnant mother, a large fetus or a breech birth. An unreasonable delay in performing an emergency cesarean section can increase the risk of injury.

A pregnant woman with gestational diabetes faces a greater risk of complications at birth. About two to seven babies out of a thousand births will suffer birth injuries. Every precaution to ensure a healthy delivery should be pursued by seeing a competent pre-natal physician.

Many Michigan parents care for a child, injured at birth. If your child was injured at birth, it is important our Michigan birth injury lawyers. For more information about medical malpractice cases in Michigan, request our FREE BOOK, "The Ultimate Michigan Medical Malpractice Handbook."

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We are Michigan cerebral palsy medical malpractice lawyers and Michigan birth injury lawyers handling cases involving birth trauma, c-section delay, shoulder dystocia, fetus asphyxia, fetal asphyxia, Group B Streptocococcus (GBS), hypoxic ishemic encephalopathy, anoxic encephalopathy, lack of oxygen, neonatal, pre-term birth, prenatal injury, placenta separation, uterine rupture, umbilical cord compression,umbilical cord clamping,anoxic brain injury, jaundice, kernicterus, hydrocephalus, hyperbilirubinea, RH-ABO incompatibility, sepsis, infections,infectious disease, meningitis, forcep injuries, nursery burn injuries, and labor and delivery negligence.

We represent Michigan birth injury victims diagnosed with brain damage, cerebral palsy, spastic cerebral palsy, ataxic cerebral palsy, athetoid cerebral palsy, brachial plexus, Erb's palsy, mental retardation, premature birth, hypoxic-ischemic injury, anoxic brain injury, hydrocephalus, encephalopathy,spina bifida, neural tube defects, blindness, hearing loss, and all other types of brain injury.

We represent birth injury malpractice victims in birth trauma cases against hospitals, doctors, physicians, obstetricians, gynecologists, OBGYNs, nurses, midwives, birthing centers, and clinics.

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