The painful reality is that injuries to a mother or child can occur at any stage of pregnancy, including during labor and delivery or just after the child is born.  While some birth injuries cannot be prevented, medical errors can cause very severe injuries.  Medical negligence occurs more frequently than any patient would care to know and leads to numerous birth injuries every year with injuries of various types including mental retardation, cerebral palsy, limb paralysis and Erb’s palsy.

Complex medical and legal issues are involved in birth injury litigation.  At Regan Zambri & Long, our attorneys and staff have the experience and qualifications necessary to successfully handle these cases and achieve outstanding results for our clients.

Familes can face many extraordinary challenges and difficult decisions when children are born with disabilities.  Parents frequently feel overwhelmed when presented with the news of their child’s birth injury. The most important issues are the health of the child and getting the required health care, treatment and services.  Our attorneys are committed to helping families think about the other important issues raised including assisting with litigation and protecting the rights of the child and the family.  Included in our services, and at no cost to the parents, we invesitgate the child's condition and determine whether it was caused by negligent or harmful medical treatment.

The following are examples of negligent medical errors that can cause birth injuries:

• Failure to properly monitor a pregnancy including monitoring the health of the woman and the fetus
• Failure to order proper care for a woman with a high-risk pregnancy including failure to refer a woman with  symptoms to an obstretrician who specializes in high-risk pregnancies
• Failure to properly order, read or analyze prenatal tests
• Failure to diagnose and/or treat premature rupture of the membranes (bag of waters)
• Failure to monitor and prepare to treat birth complications with a larger baby
  
• Failuer to anticipate and treat complications in the mother
  
• Failure to respond appropriately to bleeding
• Failure to treat umbilical cord entrapment
• Failure to monitor and treat fetal distress (including irregularities with fetal heartbeat)
• Failure to order or delaying order of cesarean section (c-section) when required medically
• Misuse of Pitocin, a synthesized hormone used to induce or speed up labor
• Failure to monitor and respond to problems in the fetus’ condition during labor or delivery
• Permitting delay between the rupture of membranes and delivery
• Failure to properly guard against, identify or treat infection
• Negligent use of vacuum extraction or forceps during delivery
• Failure to diagnose and/or treat placenta previa or placental abruption
• Negligent failure to stop premature labor with labor-arresting medications
  
• Negligently performing a traumatic delivery
• Failure to note and treat signs of oxygen deprivation in the fetus
• Negligence in properly resuscitating a newborn
• Failure in performing a circumcision

If a child in your family has suffered a birth injury or cerebral palsy, please feel free to contact us.  We will promptly evaluate your child’s condition and thoroughly investigate whether the disability was caused by medical negligence of a health care provider.  This initial investigation of the medical treatment is performed at no cost to you.

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If you have questions regarding cerebral palsy, Erb's palsy or any other type of birth injury, please contact us online or by phone at 202-463-3030 for a free consultation.