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Oklahoma Birth Trauma Victim Awarded $1.8 Million
An Oklahoma jury has awarded $1.8 million to a young child and her family as a result of an injury she suffered during birth. The jury determined that the doctor delivering Chaylee in 2008 inadvertently ripped and ruptured nerves in her left shoulder, making her left arm essentially useless. The lawsuit claims he made two mistakes: His choice to use a vacuum delivery was, in the eyes of some, his first mistake. They say it was unnecessary given the relatively good health of the baby in utero. The other mistake happened when Chaylee became stuck behind her mother’s pelvic bone and the doctor pulled down on her head in an attempt to free her. An injury like Chaylee’s can severely limit the advancement of the fine motor skills children develop when they are young. For Chaylee, the severity of her birth injury makes it unlikely she will ever have significant…
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Boy with Cerebral Palsy is Modeling
A young British boy with cerebral palsy has embarked upon a modeling career, despite the fact that he cannot talk and spends most of his time in a wheelchair. Six-year-old Joshua Lindley has cerebral palsy quadriplegia and speaks using a special talking machine similar to that used by Professor Steven Hawking. He is able to understand everything, but he was unable to respond until his mom got him the digital talking aid. With the machine, he can do things like tell him mom what he wants for dinner or what he wants to watch on TV, things that most people take for granted. The Vantage Talker machine has pictures for all the things in Joshua’s daily life, including pictures of his mother and father and the things he likes to eat. His mother got funding to purchase it through a government program. Joshua likes to be the center of attention…
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Skeleton Shows Birth Trauma Is Nothing New
The oldest evidence of birth trauma in a human skeleton has been discovered by a researcher in Canada, confirming that the dangers of childbirth are nothing new to our species. Susan Pfeiffer, from the University of Toronto in Canada, has found an example of stress injury to the pelvis in the skeleton of a 2000-year-old female found in South Africa. According to newscientist.com, humans are unique among hominids in having a birth canal that is nearly identical in size to the neonatal head. This means that it is inevitable that natural variations will cause some women to have a pelvis that is too small for childbirth. The skeleton examined by Pfeiffer had an unusually narrow pelvis, which she said appears to have led to an injury to the pubic symphysis, a joint running down the midline of the pelvis, during childbirth. “Resulting deterioration of her joints probably caused a lot…
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