How Can A Brain Damaged Baby Lawyer Help Me?

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If your child or a child you love has suffered brain damage, you are likely wondering: "How can a brain damaged baby lawyer help me? Good question. It is a question shared by many who are suffering, stressed, and fearful because a child they love has been hurt and sustained injuries that last a lifetime.

How the Duffy and Duffy Brain Damaged Baby Lawyers Help

The brain damaged baby lawyers of Duffy and Duffy have helped thousands of injured people. They know how to investigate medical malpractice claims, working within the medical and legal systems, understand medical terminology, negotiating and communicating with insurance companies, answering your questions and calming your fears. The Duffy and Duffy brain damaged baby lawyer does all of this so you don’t have to. You can simply focus on what matters most, caring for the child who you love.

Brain injury is all too common while the baby is still in the womb (in vitro) or during delivery. Brain injury can ...
... be caused by lack of oxygen such as when the umbilical cord is wrapped around the baby’s neck, the baby gets stuck under the mother’s pubic bone, or a cesarean section is delayed for hours while vaginal birth is attempted.

Other causes of brain injury are maternal infection, genetic malformation, premature birth, blood disease, and jaundice. In some cases, brain injury could have been avoided but for the doctor’s negligent action or inaction. In other words, the negligent doctor did not follow standard medical protocol for his or her medical specialty and an injury results.

If you suspect that a child’s brain injury has been caused by a negligent doctor or staff, call a Duffy and Duffy brain injury damage lawyer for a free, no obligation, case evaluation. To help you, here are some signs that malpractice may have caused your child’s brain injury:

Forceps or vacuum extraction were used to remove the baby from the birth canal
The baby scored low on the Apgar test (10 is a perfect score)
A cesarean is performed after hours of attempted vaginal delivery
The umbilical cord was wrapped around the baby’s neck during delivery
The baby was blue at birth
The baby did not cry at birth
The baby has to stay in the hospital more than one night
The baby has to stay in the NICU
The doctor, nurse, or other staff indicates that something should not have happened or something should have been done differently

Brain injury attorney : If any of these things happened and your child is brain damaged, call a birth injury lawyer today.