Vaginal Childbirth Tear and Compensation for Medical Negligence.
If you suffer a severe tear, such as a 3rd or 4th degree tear, during the birth of your baby, it needs prompt and competent medical care. If this does not happen, you are at risk of suffering disabling bowel symptoms for the rest of your life.
Severe birth tears
If you suspect that you may have been the victim of such negligence, contact a specialist solicitor to discuss your experience and whether or not it may be possible to make a claim for compensation.
Severe birth tears can occur during labour when the pressure of the baby's delivery causes the skin to tear. The majority of women suffer 1st or 2nd degree tears but occasionally, a woman may suffer a more severe tear which crosses her perineum and causes damage to the muscles around the anus.
If medical professionals attending the birth fail to recognise that this has happened, a repair will not take place and the new mother may return home only to find that she is struggling with bowel problems.
A 3rd or 4th degree tear can leave a woman trying to cope with the practical and emotional impact of leakage or incontinence. She may feel that her life now revolves around access to a toilet and can become increasingly isolated through a fear of leaving her home.
Medical negligence and severe birth tears
A failure of care by medical professionals which leaves a woman with a severe birth tear, when appropriate medical care would have produced a diagnosis and triggered a repair, may justify a claim for compensation.
Medical professionals may be regarded as having been negligent in the following circumstances:
- They have failed to carry out a full perineal examination of the new mother after the birth of her baby
- They failed to carry out a digital rectal examination of the new mother
- They failed to identify damage to the anal sphincter
- They failed to identify damage correctly as either a 3a, 3b, 3c or 4th degree tear
Speak to a legal specialist
Glynns Solicitors is a dedicated medical negligence legal practice with extensive experience in severe birth tear claims. We understand that sometimes women find these injuries difficult to talk about but we can assure you that we speak daily with women in these circumstances and fully appreciate the distress that their symptoms can cause.
If you suspect that you have been the victim of negligence, contact us today to talk to a solicitor, free of charge, about what has happened to you and the possibility of making a claim.
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