Whether it’s your first baby or your 10th, every pregnancy and labor and delivery are as unique as the baby itself. Even if you ate well, exercised, refrained from drinking alcohol and followed every piece of advice your doctor gave you, things do go wrong.

Unfortunately, when a mistake is made and your child was the victim of a birth injury caused by the negligence of a doctor, nurse or other healthcare worker, you have every right to feel overwhelmed, consumed with grief and focused on getting justice for your family.

If your baby is suffering from any of the following conditions, the road to recovery may be long and painful. Birth injuries are not always immediately apparent. Some birth injuries might not be recognized until years after delivery. As a result, many parents don’t even suspect that their child’s injury, diagnosed years after birth, was caused by doctor negligence. A knowledgeable medical malpractice attorney at LaDuca Law Firm will work closely with forensic investigators and other medical consultants to examine your child’s injury or illness medical records and get to the bottom of what happened.

The most common types of birth injury cases in New York include:

• Erb’s palsy can be caused when there is head or shoulder trauma during delivery.
• Shoulder dystocia: This is one of the major causes of Erb’s palsy but there are other injuries that can occur, as well, when a baby’s shoulder gets stuck during delivery.
• Cerebral palsy: When the doctor makes a mistake during delivery and air supply is cut off from the baby, brain damage can result causing the serious symptoms of cerebral palsy including speech, hearing, sight and muscular difficulties.
• Bone fractures: If the baby is overweight or breach or there is any complication that is undiagnosed and dealt with prior to delivery, the baby can suffer broken or fractured bones.These injuries can have lifelong effects on the child.
• Failure or Delay in Performing a C-Section: The pregnant woman must be properly monitored throughout the labor and delivery process. The need for a Caesarian Section is often obvious to a gynecologists, obstetricians and labor and delivery nurse that is properly keeping an eye on the progression of labor. Failure to perform a C-Section can case the baby to die during childbirth.

Even though some of these injuries can be managed and corrected, there are many birth injuries that never heal. In these cases, your child may be dealing with them for a lifetime. If a medical malpractice mistake caused your baby’s wrongful death, you will be thinking about the “what ifs” for a lifetime.

Talk to the compassionate birth injury lawyers at LaDuca Law Firm in Rochester, New York. We will review all medical records and get a full understanding of what happened that resulted in your baby’s injuries. We will fight tirelessly to make sure your family receive the financial damages necessary to care for your child in the long-term.

The consultation is free and there are no upfront legal costs. We going into every negotiation with the full intention of coming to a reasonably, substantial settlement for our clients. However, we never back down to insurance companies; they know that we are prepared to go to court — and will to ensure our clients get every dollar they deserve for their baby’s birth injury.