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traumatic birth injury in the State of
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Florida is that situation where during
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the course of the labor and delivery
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process there is harm or injury that’s
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brought to forth to the newborn that
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harm can come from various sources it
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can come from the way the baby was
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delivered often times if there’s
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difficulty in the delivery they would
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use some type of forcep some type of
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instrumentation it involves the
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monitoring process if you will of the
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baby’s Vital Signs they call it fetal
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hard monitoring it’s very important that
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the nurses are on top of monitoring that
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because at certain levels if they don’t
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get the baby out at certain monitoring
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levels it can cause traumatic uh brain
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injury and harm to the newborn there are
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various types of situations how they
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manipulate the baby coming uh uh out of
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the uh mother’s womb into uh into the
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world it’s critical that that’s
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monitored it’s critical that it’s it’s
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observed by trained people if that
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doesn’t uh it causes various types of
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injuries some minor it could cause minor
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bruising uh of the baby however it could
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be very severe severe brain injury like
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cerebal pausy those type of injuries so
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there’s a gamit of injuries that can
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occur you can have uh herbs paly uh you
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can have shoulder pausy where it’s
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brachial pausy where the way the baby
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was pulled out it tore the nerves in the
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shoulder area and that could lead to a
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person a baby growing up to be an adult
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with no use of an extremity there’s
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traumatic injuries that occur uh in the
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birthing process it’s very critical uh
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in this instance that uh just as some
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general medical malpractice cases is
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that we look at the details of the
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medical record if you think that you’ve
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had a child that has an injury that
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doesn’t uh seem right it’s critical that
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you uh speak to a an experienced lawyer
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experienced lawyer who does this type of
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litigation stature limitations are a
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little different in medical malpractice
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General issues and a in a uh tra
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traumatic uh uh birth injury in a birth
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injury it’s two years or two years from
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the time you should have known what does
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that mean sometime you don’t know right
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off the bat that your child has an
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injury the baby can look normal at the
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beginning but when the baby starts
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missing Milestones when they go to the
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various checks with the doctor something
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may be wrong your stature limitations
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doesn’t start until that something
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becomes obvious and known to you so it’s
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a little more complex but if you see
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anything in the birthing process and
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your de uh development of your child
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that you’re concerned with I encourage
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you to reach out to us and let us
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consult with you and more importantly
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let us look at your records and consult
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with experts neonatologist
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perinatologist neurologist there’s so
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many experts involved in looking at
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injuries to newborns and those are
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people that we have strong relationships
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with years of experience in in analyzing
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cases with them and most importantly
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don’t wait do not wait if you have a
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suspicion it doesn’t cost you anything
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to inquire and in fact it enriches your
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understanding of the situation because
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the knowledge that we get from the
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experts we share with you as the parent
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and therefore you have a better
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understanding and you can rest assured
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that hopefully if there is a medical
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negligence that somebody did something
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that caused the injury that injury to
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your child or harm to your child then we
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can uh represent and seek damages under
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the law in the state of Florida but if
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it’s not at least you can rest assured
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that you’ve inquired and made sure from
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a legal standpoint that everything’s
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okay so I encourage you to reach out to
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us we have deep experience of decades
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handling these type of cases and there’s
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nothing more precious than to make sure
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your baby has its best opportunity to
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grow and be a normal have a normal life