Overview
Women in the United States currently have access to some of the most sophisticated prenatal treatment in the world. Concerned parents looking to start or expand their families tend to be vigilant about any possible problems arising during pregnancy or childbirth and place a profound amount of trust in obstetricians, nurses, and other health care professionals by choosing them to guide mother and baby through one of the most significant medical procedures either of them will undergo.
Sadly, the childbirth process does not always go well. Sometimes, despite the best efforts of both parents and medical personnel, children are born with serious, often congenital health problems. Other times, however, a healthy infant carried for an uneventful, full pregnancy can face sudden and devastating health problems at birth due to mistakes made in the delivery room by the medical staff. The dedicated Milwaukee birth injury attorneys at MacGillis Law Group, LLC, are all too familiar with the difficulties a family can endure in the days, weeks, even years following a preventable injury to an infant or mother occurring during birth. We have more than two decades of combined experience providing compassionate representation to families in pursuit of justice. Trust us to fight for the compensation you need to recover from a birth injury due to medical negligence.
COMMON CAUSES OF BIRTH INJURIES
Ideally, prenatal care merely monitors the development of a healthy baby, and modern childbirth procedures only facilitate the entirely natural human process of delivery and birth. Birth injuries often occur when medical professionals fail to discover or anticipate issues that can complicate the childbirth process, or when they fail to meet an acceptable standard of skill, care, or judgment during the delivery itself.
Many birth injuries are caused by medical errors such as: