Parents of babies who have suffered brain injury or spinal cord injury as a result of birth trauma are urged to contact Wilson Kehoe Winingham promptly to schedule a free initial consultation. Our legal nurse consultant is highly qualified to evaluate potential birth injury cases from both a medical and a legal standpoint. WKW has an extensive collection of medical literature and guidelines on this subject, so we are well equipped to properly evaluate and pursue a case.

Birth injuries may result from any number of scenarios stemming from conditions or events during pregnancy, labor and/or delivery. Common examples of doctor error leading to birth trauma include the following:

• Vacuum extraction of a large baby of a first-time mom
• Failure to recognize that a fetus is in distress during labor
• Failure to detect or mitigate umbilical cord complications, such as when the cord is wrapped around the baby's neck in the birth canal
• Failure to properly manage vaginal birth after C-Section

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A baby who is pulled out of the mother's birth canal by vacuum extraction may suffer an injured spinal cord or brain, since a newborn's skull is not fused together. A baby who was in fact too big for his mother to delivery vaginally is vulnerable to spinal cord injury if the attending physician resorts to stretching him while attempting to extract him with a vacuum device.

Several factors may contribute to a child's birth injury:

• Negligence in prenatal care
• Preeclampsia
• Forceps delivery
• Vacuum extraction delivery
• Negligent fetal monitoring during labor
• Failure to detect fetal distress
• Delayed C-Section
• C-Section complications
• Cerebral palsy
• Placenta abruption
• Breech delivery complications
• Erbs palsy
• Shoulder dystocia
• Prescription drugs during pregnancy