Utah Personal Injury Lawyer Blog

During a pregnancy, a mother is usually meticulous about how she takes care of herself. All of that care can be for nothing, however, when a doctor in charge of the labor and delivery fails to act quickly to a fetus in distress and waits too long to move forward with an emergency cesarean section ? or fails to perform one at all.

When a baby is allowed to be in distress too long, often resulting in a lack of oxygen, it?s called a ?delayed delivery.? Delayed deliveries can cause severe birth injuries, such as damage to the brain and cerebral palsy.

Some of the questions to ponder in cases of delayed delivery and possible malpractice include:

• Did your medical team recognize and react to your baby?s distress during labor?
• Was the labor and delivery department fully staffed? (If not, this could be hospital negligence.)
• Did your doctor arrive quickly to handle your delivery?
• Did your doctor fail to calculate your baby?s size correctly?

At G. Eric Nielson & Associates, we can help discover what really happened after a delayed delivery. If your child suffered an injury due to a delayed delivery, and you live in the Salt Lake City, Price, Tooele and surrounding Utah areas, please contact our birth injury lawyers at 1-866-605-4556.