A woman who had been struggling with hypertension for a number of years decides that she and her husband want to have a baby. After she got pregnant, she consulted her primary care physician who sent her to an obstetrician. After after having a discussion about her hypertension with her obstetrician, he decides to take her off her hypertension medication based on fear over the effects it might have on her unborn child. Her obstetrician therefore chooses to control her condition through diet and is able to maintain her blood pressure for awhile. However, after a few weeks diet by itself was no longer could not control her hypertension and the obstetrician has her take half her normal dose prior to the pregnancy.
Despite the mother taking medication for her hypertension, the mother starts to get headaches, suffer from nausea, vomiting and blurred vision, that progressively become more frequent throughout her pregnancy.
When she goes into her physician' office, he notes her elevated blood pressure and gives her a higher dose of medication to bring it down. Even with her best efforts in meeting with the physician to fix these issues, her symptoms get progressively worse and more frequent as her pregnancy went on. In her later visits it is noted that she has begun to leak amniotic fluid, which can be extremely dangerous.
After one of the later ultrasounds the doctor should have known that the child's nutrient levels were sufficiently depleted to levels that could cause injury to the child's central nervous system. However, despite the lack of nutrients in the womb and the risk of harm that to her child, the physician failed to perform any other tests and told her not to worry about it as it is not a serious problem. He fails to tell the mother that the ultrasound revealed that she had calcifications her placenta, which indicates that the placenta did not receive enough oxygen making parts of the placenta to die.
At her next appointment with the doctor, the mother stated that she had headaches, that the baby was not moving much and that she had sinus drainage in her ears. The obstetrician indicated he would to induce her the following week since her condition was getting worse. The maternal grandmother, who was at the appointment, requested that he induce labor right then and there since the child's heartbeat appeared strong, but the physician stated the child was better off in the womb.
The following week the woman went into her physician's office to have her baby. Following the ultrasound, the technician, acting strangely, handed her the video and then left the room. A nurse for the doctor brought her into a small room, not a regular exam room. The physician then came in to tell her that her child has no heartbeat. A trip to the hospital confirmed that her child had died. Her doctor then tells her that she needed to go into labor right then and there as to prevent any harm to herself. Having already endured the death of her baby she was forced to endure the pain of going through labor to deliver a stillborn child. After this event the mother and her husband filed a malpractice lawsuit against the obstetrician, asking for damages relating to the loss of their baby, including emotional distress. With the efforts of the law firm that represented them, the parents were able to reach a settlement for $650,000.
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Joseph Hernandez is an Attorney accepting complex injury cases. You can learn more about stillbirth and other birth injury cases such as group b streptococcus and erbs palsy matters by visiting the websites
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