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Medical malpractice during birth can cause serious injuries, leading to Erb’s palsy, learning disabilities, seizure disorders, and more. With that, traumatic births and botched deliveries caused by medical malpractice may have devastating, lifelong effects on children.

The DiPietro Law Firm is committed to helping victims of botched deliveries and their families find the justice they deserve via birth injury lawsuits. Medical malpractice during birth can be hard to identify. The following is a closer look at several critical steps toward identifying and building a birth injury case with a specialist birth injury attorney.

Step 1: Identify Common Signs of Medical Malpractice During Birth

Medical malpractice during birth is often complex to identify unless a family knows what they’re looking for. According to The DiPietro Law Firm, common signs of malpractice during birth include heart rate deceleration, passed meconium, cephalohematoma or bilateral cephalohematoma, and low cord blood gases.

Meanwhile, having to receive oxygen during delivery, a decrease or lack of fetal movement, the use of forceps, and an emergency cesarean section being required after being in labor for many hours may also point toward medical malpractice.

Having identified one or more common signs of medical malpractice, families may then take steps to directly tie this malpractice to a resulting injury or health condition.

Step 2: Attribute a Condition or Injury to Medical Malpractice

The DiPietro Law Firm’s team reports that dozens of common birth injuries and conditions may be attributable to medical malpractice. Common injuries occurring as a result of medical malpractice during birth include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Anoxia
• Birth asphyxia
• Brain damage
• Cerebral palsy
• Cognitive deficits
• Developmental delays
• Erb’s palsy
• Hip dysplasia
• Hypoxia
• Iatrogenic prematurity
• Oxygen deprivation
• Pervasive development disorder
• Respiratory arrest
• Seizure disorder
• Shoulder dystocia
• Subarachnoid, subdural, or subgaleal hemorrhage
• Swallowed meconium

Where any of these conditions or injuries exist, families must begin taking steps toward building a birth injury case.

Step 3: Eschew Self-Blame and Reach out for Help

A recurring theme among parents is that they somehow begin to blame themselves for birth injury cases. This reaction is very human. However, self-blame is almost always misplaced. Instead, parents should reach out for help with building a case against those who are, in fact, responsible through instances of medical malpractice.

Such cases are invariably more successful with expert legal counsel. When contacting a lawyer for help, choosing a specialist birth injury lawyer is vital. The DiPietro Law Firm is committed to helping victims of devastating, long-term birth injuries and their families find and receive the justice they deserve.

Its team understands the importance of early intervention and the lifelong educational, therapeutic, and vocational needs of children suffering from various forms of birth injury.

To learn more, visit ATDLaw.com or call 212-233-3600 for a 100% confidential and free consultation about building a case with a specialist birth injury attorney.