Monthly Archives: January 2014

Texas Family Shocked To Learn That Baby at Hospital Breastfed By Wrong Mother

In a shocking story, a woman claims that a hospital outside of Houston allowed another patient to breastfeed her baby shortly after it was born due to a mix-up at the birthing facility. According to the Huffington Post, after Jessica Escobedo gave birth to her third child Melanie, on December 10, 2013, at the Oak Bend Medical Center, she was brought a baby by a nurse who she did not give birth to. Horrified, Escobedo demanded to know where her child was, before finding out that Melanie was taken to another mother, who did not notice that she had the wrong baby. “I asked the nurse where [Melanie was] and they actually took my baby to another mother,” Escobedo said, according to the HuffPost. “[S]he was over there for like two hours and the other mother actually breast fed and didn’t notice that she had the wrong baby.” “This could’ve…
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Jury Selection Begins in North Carolina Birth Injury Case

According to the Burlington Times-News, on January 13, jury selection began in a medical malpractice case stemming from a 2011 birth injury. The lawsuit was filed in September 2011, and the trial is expected to last three weeks. In the suit, the plaintiffs, a mother, father and their 2-year-old son, allege that negligence by a Burlington women’s clinic and obstetrician during the child’s birth resulted in birth injuries, including the boy losing the normal use of some body parts. The complaint states that after the child was born by cesarean section on May 2, 2011, following 18 hours of labor, he “was floppy, had no tone, response or heart rate,” and was diagnosed with “hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy and birth asphyxia,” which will require him to have special care for the rest of his life. According to the lawsuit, the family is contending that the obstetrician failing to respond correctly to the…
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Maternity Wards Spend One Fifth of Their Budgets Covering Birth Injury Claims

According to a report in The Telegraph, nearly £500 million, or one fifth of the budget, of maternity units in the United Kingdom was spent on covering birth injury claims. In the same report, it was revealed that more than half of maternity units had a shortage of physicians and there is shortage of close to 2,300 midwives nationwide. However, these types of problems are not limited to the UK. In the United States, on December 23, a Lehigh County, Pennsylvania jury awarded $55 million to parents who sued St. Luke’s University Hospital and one of its doctors for medical malpractice, according to The Express-Times. During the November 2009 delivery of their son, the parents accused the doctor of ignoring signs that their son was not receiving enough oxygen and required a Caesarean section delivery, which led to their son losing more oxygen when he became stuck during vaginal delivery….
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