Birth Injury Attorney - Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, and Statewide

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 LLC promptly to schedule a free initial consultation. Our physician-lawyer is highly qualified to evaluate potential birth injury cases from both a medical and a legal standpoint.

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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

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.

Negligence in Prenatal Care, Labor, or Delivery may Contribute to Birth Trauma

Did your baby have a suspiciously low post-natal Apgar score without a clear explanation from your doctor? Contact Wilson, Kehoe & Winingham LLC in Indianapolis to discuss any of the following factors in your 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

A child may even suffer a head injury in a labor room "slip and fall" accident when the attending obstetrician drops the baby as she emerges from the birth canal.

Contact Wilson, Kehoe & Winingham LLC to discuss legal issues birth injury with an attorney who is also a medical doctor. If your baby died as a result of a birth trauma, we will explore the possibility of a wrongful death claim or lawsuit.