03 Jan Genetics and Negligence Can Both Cause Birth Injuries
Birth injuries can occur for a wide variety of reasons. In some cases, birth injuries happen because of a genetic predisposition, because of an illness or because of something that occurs inside the womb that could not have been predicted. There are cases where medical negligence ends up being the cause of a birth injury, as well, and these sometimes could have been prevented.
Genetics
Cerebral palsy is one of the most common conditions that results from birth injuries to the brain. Birth injuries to the brain can sometimes manifest because of a genetic predisposition. For instance, the brain may simply not form correctly, causing scenarios such as the brain cells failing to migrate to the correct position in the brain or scenarios when brain cells do not form at all. Should this occur in certain areas of the brain, it can cause the symptoms of cerebral palsy.
Illness
Illness can also play a factor in birth injuries. For example, it's possible for a mother to have a very minor, almost undetectable infection that could do real damage to the fetus's brain. This can result in the types of injuries that caused cerebral palsy. It can, of course, also cause other types of injuries, and even a very competent and attentive physician may not have had an opportunity to notice that anything was wrong before the damage was done.
Negligence
Medical negligence is, unfortunately, one of the common causes of birth injuries. In instances of medical negligence, a physician fails to live up to their obligations to their patients. Legally, this is called a breach of duty.
A breach of duty to a patient can include failing to make a diagnosis that should have been made, failing to give a procedure that was called for under the circumstances or failure to deliver a child correctly and doing so in a way that ended up causing an injury. There are options for families who have been victims of medical negligence and, sometimes, those options include filing a lawsuit.
Because of the many different causes of birth injuries, you'll need to speak to an attorney about whether it was likely that your child was a victim of medical negligence. This may require the attorney to dig rather deeply into the case, but if they take you on as a client, they'll have plenty of resources to do just that.
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