Category Archives: Birth Trauma
Michigan Woman Awarded $12.9 Million After Hospital Fails to Order Cesarean Delivery
According to the Flint Journal, a woman in Michigan was awarded $12.9 million last fall after she claimed that her healthcare provider’s medical mistakes during childbirth left her daughter disfigured and without the full use of her right arm. The paper reported that the award was given to Libbey Bryson, 38, of Flint after a 12-day trial. In her lawsuit, Bryson claimed the nerves controlling her daughter’s right arm were severed when resident doctors pulled down too hard on the baby’s head after it was stuck during childbirth on January 1, 2008. The baby reportedly became stuck on her pelvic bone during birth and doctors should have done a cesarean section or delivered using a method that would have caused less strain on the baby, Bryson said. The child has undergone multiple surgeries and continues to wear a brace on her right arm, which is malformed, according to court documents. The Journal…
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Texas Family Shocked To Learn That Baby at Hospital Breastfed By Wrong Mother
In a shocking story, a woman claims that a hospital outside of Houston allowed another patient to breastfeed her baby shortly after it was born due to a mix-up at the birthing facility. According to the Huffington Post, after Jessica Escobedo gave birth to her third child Melanie, on December 10, 2013, at the Oak Bend Medical Center, she was brought a baby by a nurse who she did not give birth to. Horrified, Escobedo demanded to know where her child was, before finding out that Melanie was taken to another mother, who did not notice that she had the wrong baby. “I asked the nurse where [Melanie was] and they actually took my baby to another mother,” Escobedo said, according to the HuffPost. “[S]he was over there for like two hours and the other mother actually breast fed and didn’t notice that she had the wrong baby.” “This could’ve…
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Jury Selection Begins in North Carolina Birth Injury Case
According to the Burlington Times-News, on January 13, jury selection began in a medical malpractice case stemming from a 2011 birth injury. The lawsuit was filed in September 2011, and the trial is expected to last three weeks. In the suit, the plaintiffs, a mother, father and their 2-year-old son, allege that negligence by a Burlington women’s clinic and obstetrician during the child’s birth resulted in birth injuries, including the boy losing the normal use of some body parts. The complaint states that after the child was born by cesarean section on May 2, 2011, following 18 hours of labor, he “was floppy, had no tone, response or heart rate,” and was diagnosed with “hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy and birth asphyxia,” which will require him to have special care for the rest of his life. According to the lawsuit, the family is contending that the obstetrician failing to respond correctly to the…
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