Blog Category | Birth injury
March 19, 2024
3 Preventable Birth Injuries That Can Result In Lifelong Effects
It is the duty of every obstetrician to minimize the risk of injury to both mother and child during delivery. However, birth injuries do sometimes happen due to negligence and lack of proper medical care. While most birth injuries heal on their own or with minimal management, some birth injuries...
Read MoreFebruary 23, 2024
How Often Do Birth Injuries Occur?
Birth injuries, while not exceedingly common, remain a significant concern, as they affect a small percentage of live births annually and every single new life is precious. These injuries can range from relatively mild issues that resolve over time to severe, lifelong disabilities. Examples are varied and include physical trauma...
Read MoreFebruary 13, 2023
Did A Birth Injury Cause Your Child’s Cerebral Palsy?
If you are a parent of a child with cerebral palsy, you may have questions about how and why it occurred. Although there is no definite answer to this question, many medical professionals believe that birth injuries are a common cause of cerebral palsy in children. This article will discuss...
Read MoreAugust 02, 2022
How Common Are Birth Defects, And What Can Cause Them?
New Jersey parents don’t expect anything to go wrong when their children are born. However, some newborns have birth defects. Knowing how common they are and what might cause them is important. How common are birth defects? Birth defects may not always be immediately noticeable. Some are apparent right away....
Read MoreOctober 21, 2021
Do Doctors Have A Duty To Inform Mothers Of Stillbirth Risks?
Pregnancy is an exciting time for many women. However, complications can occur, and people generally expect doctors in New Jersey to disclose potential risks to expectant moms. Stillbirth is one of those issues. How common is stillbirth? Sadly, birth defects and stillbirths are more common than many people may think....
Read MoreMay 27, 2021
Common Orthopedic Injuries To Newborns
Childbirth is a joyful and sometimes dangerous process. It is not uncommon for newborn babies to receive birth injuries as they are being delivered. Here are four of the most common orthopedic injuries that newborns may receive during childbirth in New Jersey. Erb’s palsy Brachial plexus injuries such as Erb’s...
Read MoreApril 26, 2021
Recognizing The Signs Of Common Birth Injuries
The birth of a child is often one of the most joyous occasions a New Jersey family experiences. But an injury to the newborn can quickly cause this experience to become a nightmare. Families that are aware of common birth injuries will be able to spot the signs of these...
Read MoreJanuary 06, 2021
Rare Types Of Birth Injuries
The reality is that medical errors and accidents do occur within the New Jersey hospital system. Perhaps the most unfortunate of those damages are birth injuries. In many of birth injury cases, the hurts may not be apparent until later on. Because of this delayed evidence of a problem, parents...
Read MoreAugust 27, 2020
What Causes Birth Injuries?
Children are born every day without complications, but in some cases, something goes wrong, and the baby suffers a birth injury. In many of these cases, better medical care could have prevented the injury. The causes of birth injuries are often preventable if you receive proper prenatal care and your...
Read MoreJune 15, 2020
What’s The Difference Between A Birth Defect And Birth Injury?
When you are expecting the birth of a child, it’s natural to feel a little worried. You probably aren’t just thinking about how you will care for a newborn, but how your baby’s birth will go. You want your baby to be born healthy, without any complications. However, that doesn’t...
Read MoreMay 21, 2020
Who May Be Held Liable For Birth Injuries?
When you or your partner deliver your baby, the last thing you think about it a potential injury occurring during the process. Unfortunately, five out of every 1000 babies that are born sustain a birth injury of some sort. This can be devastating and you may wonder what options you...
Read MoreMay 14, 2020
How Common Are Birth Injuries?
As you prepare for the birth of your child, you will want to ensure that everything is in place for a safe delivery. The chances of your newborn suffering from birth injuries are low. And working with well-trained medical professionals can further decrease the odds of them. Yet, enough babies...
Read MoreMay 11, 2020
The Differences Between Birth Defects And Birth Injuries
Most new parents are no strangers to feeling stress or anxiety. Expanding the family presents challenges before, during and after the pregnancy. Among the more nerve-wracking moments occurs immediately afterward, when medical professionals perform an infant’s first medical examination. During this time, a doctor may discover an unfortunate birth injury...
Read MoreDecember 23, 2019
What Are The Most Common Birth Injuries?
Many expectant parents await their child’s birth with a mix of excitement and nervousness. Even when all the tests show that the mother and unborn child are healthy, the birthing process itself can involve several components that are out of a parent’s control. One concern parents may have involves the...
Read MoreDecember 06, 2019
Did Your Baby Suffer From Shoulder Dystocia?
Becoming a new mother is an exciting, joyous moment. But when you experience negligence in the labor and delivery room, that excitement can quickly turn into fear, frustration and anxiety. A doctor’s incompetence, inattentiveness or inexperience during your delivery can result in serious health complications for you and your child....
Read MoreOctober 07, 2019
Are Birth Injuries Common?
Few things in life are more exciting and memorable than the birth of a child. Like every parent, you want the childbirth process to go smoothly. Unfortunately, that doesn’t always happen. Birth injuries do occur. Sometimes, these are unpreventable acts, while other times they are preventable and attributable to someone’s...
Read MoreOctober 03, 2019
What Leads To Birth Injuries?
Childbirth is a joyous, stressful, exciting, and overwhelming life event. Unfortunately, sometimes it is overwhelming for the wrong reasons. Hospitals have dedicated teams of doctors trained in birthing children, but that doesn’t mean that issues never arise. Birth complications sometimes lead to birth injuries. These complications run the gamut. Sometimes,...
Read MoreAugust 19, 2019
Legal Action For Birth Defects Is Different Than Birth Injuries
Many parents in New Jersey are relieved once the baby is delivered safely after nine hard months of pregnancy, but it may not take long before a medical emergency occurs. For some, bigger problems arise once the baby comes out. The doctors may come across a physical oddity or notice...
Read MoreJuly 31, 2019
How Common Are Birth Defects In The United States?
While some defects are truly the result of genetics, there are a significant number that result from errors made by medical professionals or facilities during the pregnancy or delivery. Birth defects are far more common than you might imagine, with one in every 33 babies born having some form of birth...
Read MoreDecember 28, 2018
New Jersey Jury Hands Down $20 Million For Fetal Brain Injury
Maria Tapia was pregnant with twins in 2011. During her 33rd week, she went for an ultrasound. A technician working for maternal fetal medicine specialist Gary Frisoli discovered one of the babies, a girl, had developed intrauterine growth retardation. The condition caused the baby to lose weight because she was...
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