Delayed C-Section

A child and his or her parents may have cause to file a medical malpractice claim against an obstetrician or other responsible healthcare provider if a C-section was delayed, resulting in a birth injury.

When can we say that a C-section was unnecessarily delayed? Answers to this question in your case may include one or more of the following factors:

Your OB-GYN did not properly recognize, diagnose and plan for a scheduled C-section to take into account risk factors in your pregnancy during prenatal care, such as excess weight of the mother or the baby, gestational diabetes or a previous C-section.
During labor, nurses and technicians did not adequately monitor the fetus’s status as indicated by fetal monitoring strips and missed indicators of fetal distress.
After your water broke, dilation continued at a slow pace, increasing chances of infection and harm to the baby. Yet your labor and delivery health care team did not take action to ensure that a C-section would be done in a timely manner.

Whatever the circumstances, if your baby was irreparably harmed because a C-section was delayed longer than it should have been, you may have cause to claim compensation from negligent health care providers or the hospital where you gave birth. Talk to a lawyer at Brown, Moore & Associates, PLLC to learn how we can help you.

An unjustifiable delay in a C-section may have left your baby with one or more of these birth injuries:

Delay in a C-section can harm the mother, too. Whether the baby, the mother or both were injured, you owe it to your baby and your family to request an investigation into why a C-section was unnecessarily delayed, despite indicators of its advisability.

Contact a North Carolina Fetal Distress Attorney

If your baby has suffered a birth injury because of a delayed C-section and you have additional questions after reviewing the information on our website, we invite you to contact our office to speak with a registered nurse about your potential claim. To make an appointment with a Charlotte delayed C-Section attorney, call toll free 844-452-3688 or send us an e-mail.