A Washington jury recently awarded a family $23.9 million in damages after it claimed that a child suffered permanent brain injuries due to suffocation during her birth. According to the Port Hadlock Leader, a Kitsap County jury determined that Jefferson County Public Hospital District was negligent in handling the child’s birth, resulting in injuries. Jefferson Healthcare said it would appeal the verdict, which was handed down in December. Lawyers for the family argued that providers with the hospital missed several critical signs during the birthing process in 2014, including that her umbilical cord wrapped around her neck, cutting off her supply to oxygen. The attorneys argued that the healthcare providers used a fetal heart monitor during the delivery, but negligently picked up the mother’s heartbeat instead of the baby’s. Following her birth, the child had to be resuscitated to begin breathing on her own. She now has permanent brain injuries…
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Washington Family Awarded $24 Million for Child’s Brain Injuries
January 29, 2020Illinois Mother Awarded $101 Million for Child’s Brain Injuries
December 18, 2019An Illinois mother was recently awarded $101 million after she sued her hospital when her child sustained brain injuries during birth. According to WLS, a Cook County jury awarded the woman the money for her lawsuit against West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park. The woman’s lawsuit claimed that her now five-year-old son suffered permanent brain injuries because nurses and staff members ignored her concerns about not being able to feel her unborn baby moving prior to his birth. She reportedly showed up at the hospital and an ultrasound showed the child was not moving, but nurses did not report the findings to doctors. She then allegedly waited for five hours before the delivery process began. When the child was born, he was limp, pale and not breathing, according to the lawsuit. It was later determined that the child may have had brain damage due to a lack of oxygen….
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Mothers Pushback on Abuse in Maternity Care
November 20, 2019A growing number of women have taken to the internet to voice concerns over alleged abuse at the hands of doctors during childbirth. VICE recently ran an expose on the site Birth Monopoly’s Obstetric Violence Stories Map, which went live earlier this year and allows people to share stories of abuse in maternity care. One story highlighted in the VICE piece was that of an El Paso woman who claimed that during the birth of her first child, she was subjected to unnecessary painful exams, IV and drug use and a C-Section against her wishes. The woman claimed that she had not suffered fetal distress during her pregnancy, but her doctor pushed for a C-Section because he wanted to finish his shift. The woman reportedly signed a blanket consent form during her arrival to the hospital, but was unaware of the items contained on the form and that she would…
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