Everybody hopes for a healthy baby. Nowadays, pregnant mothers are tested and retested for dangerous genetic conditions that can cause a baby to be born with severe impairments, and multiple ultrasounds of a baby in utero are not uncommon even during healthy pregnancies.<\/p>\n
Despite these precautions, sometimes medical errors are made during a mother\u2019s pregnancy or at the time of birth that cause a child to be born with significant impairments or even die during childbirth. In Illinois, these errors may amount to negligence, or what is called medical malpractice. Medical malpractice occurs in childbirth cases when a doctor or hospital employee fails to provide the same level of care that other obstetric healthcare providers would provide under similar circumstances, and this failure, or breach, causes an injury to a baby.<\/p>\n
Birth injuries come in many forms. Sometimes, the injuries are physical, and a baby\u2019s shoulders or arms possess limited function as a result of a doctor\u2019s malpractice. Other times, the injuries are to a baby\u2019s brain. Perhaps a doctor made an improper use of a birthing tool or failed to provide a timely Cesarean section procedure, and the error resulted in a baby having severe brain damage that may\u00a0last a lifetime or may even result in death.<\/p>\n