Maternal Birth Injuries and Maternity Negligence
Speak to a specialist solicitor if you or a loved one are struggling with on-going symptoms due to a failing of medical care during the birth of your baby.
Maternal birth injuries
Giving birth to a baby can be a joyful experience and is generally competently supported by maternity professionals.
Occasionally, however, things go wrong which can affect the baby, the new mother and sometimes both.
Examples of injuries or complications which can affect the mother during and following the birth of her baby and which can have long-lasting consequences could include the following:
- A severe birth tear such as a 3rd or 4th degree tear which, undiagnosed and unrepaired, can cause a lifetime of bowel problems for the new mother such as urgency, leakage and incontinence, sometimes even necessitating the fitting of a stoma
- Post-natal infection when a woman has given birth by caesarean section and a failure of monitoring or assessment has allowed an infection to develop in the wound, potentially causing long-term and debilitating symptoms
- Occasionally damage to local anatomical structures such as the bladder can occur during a caesarean section, necessitating further surgery and undermining the new mother's health and well-being and affecting her ability to support her new-born baby
- A severe bleed can also cause significant and long-term problems
Negligence and the right to compensation
If an individual is adversely affected by poor-quality medical care, they are legally entitled to compensation.
A young woman whose return to health and normal life following the birth of her baby has been compromised by maternity negligence may not only struggle to support her baby, but may also struggle to work and may find her confidence severely impacted.
Where she is found to have been the victim of negligence, these issues can be addressed in a successful compensation claim.
This could include any loss of earnings caused by her symptoms and physical and psychological difficulties. It could also include the costs of care, treatment and equipment where this has been necessitated by the poor-quality care.
Speak to a specialist solicitor
The first step is to talk to a specialist solicitor who will want to know what has happened to you and will be able to obtain copies of your medical records and assess the quality of your maternity care.
If you have been the victim of negligence, your solicitor will analyse the ways in which any negligence has affected your life and assess its financial impact, with a view to commencing a claim.
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Glynns Solicitors is a specialist medical negligence legal practice.
Contact us today to talk to a specialist solicitor, free of charge, about claiming compensation for negligent maternity care.
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