Giving birth can be a traumatic experience even when everything goes right. People hope the doctor assisting in the birth will ease the process as much as possible, and ensure the healthy delivery of their child. Unfortunately, even highly skilled doctors make mistakes, and mistakes during birth can have disastrous results.
A baby boy died in Ireland one week after his birth by emergency Caesarean due to brain trauma last month. There were complications in Daniel McGovern’s birth that led to a doctor attempting to extract him with forceps. The doctor was unsuccessful with the forceps and had to deliver the boy by Caesarean.
After McGovern was delivered, it was discovered that he had a prominent traumatic lesion on his head with bleeding within the skull.
Birth defects and baby brain injuries can occur for a variety of reasons, and often they are accidental. In this case, the doctor used forceps to assist the delivery, but instead fatally injured the child.
The doctor was not found to be at fault in this situation, but that is not always the case. Was your child a victim of medical negligence and are you considering legal action? Please share your thoughts with others in similar situations by commenting below.
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