Blog: Maternal Childbirth Injuries
- Maternal Cardiac Complications in Pregnancy, Labor, and Delivery
Sep 1, 2024
The Serious Risks of Pregnancy Heart Conditions and Cardiac Complications During pregnancy, a woman’s blood volume increases significantly. With around 30% to 50% more blood, her heart works harder to move that much volume through the body. Also, labor and delivery cause a woman’s blood pressure and heart rate to rise, increasing the chances of cardiac complications or worsening pre-existing heart problems. Such maternal stressors often lead to heart disease complications in about 4% of...Read More - What to Know about Maternal Pelvic Fractures During Childbirth
May 31, 2024
Are You a Mother who Suffered a Fractured Pelvis During Birth? Learn More About How these Injuries Occur, Possible Signs of Negligence, and Your Rights if Malpractice Contributed to Your Pelvic Fracture Childbirth injuries to birthing mothers occur for various reasons. Sometimes, mothers have pre-existing conditions that contribute to the injury, or something goes wrong with labor or delivery. However, a pelvic fracture is not typically a childbirth injury unless something goes wrong. Only a...Read More - The Dangers of Maternal Stroke Associated with Pregnancy
Apr 21, 2023
Seasoned Attorneys Discuss Maternal Strokes due to Medical Negligence and When You May Have a Claim for Compensation The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released its 2021 report about the steady rise in maternal mortality rates in the United States, the highest in the developed world. Notably, the number of deaths due to stroke among pregnant and postpartum women is also rising, accounting for most maternal deaths. After heart disease, cancer, and chronic...Read More - U.S. Maternal Deaths Continue to Climb: Is there Any Turning Back?
Apr 7, 2023
Latest Data Shows Troublesome Trend in Maternal Mortality, as U.S. Rates Reach Highest in Nearly 60 Years According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the maternal mortality rate rose 40% higher in 2021 than the previous year. Mining from the National Vital Statistics System data, the CDC reports that 1,205 women died due to maternity-related causes in 2021 compared to 2019 when 754 women died, and 2020 when 861 women died of maternity-related causes...Read More - Emotional Impact of Birth Injuries on Mothers
Nov 11, 2022
How does Birth Trauma Affect the Mother? Mothers who experience traumatic births suffer various psychological, emotional, and physical injuries. For some, difficult labor, tears, perineal injury, cesarean birth, instrument-assisted births, and stillbirths can harm a mother’s body, mind, and heart. She may have long-lasting effects that need professional assistance to heal all aspects of her life, including her relationships with her child and others. The emotional toll on a traumatized mother can be life changing...Read More - Episiotomy Complications and the Costs of Physician Mistakes
Jun 26, 2020
You had a birth plan to have your child naturally, without medication, a c-section, or an episiotomy. But life does not as always work out the way we plan, especially when it comes to the delicate and highly complex process of childbirth. Doctors often decide what is best for you and your baby based on the minute-by-minute developments of labor and delivery. Still, you want to know if that painful episiotomy was necessary, and if...Read More - New Information about Maternal Mortality in the US
Feb 28, 2020
Maternal mortality is a serious and consistent problem in the United States, plaguing states across the country and revealing profound inadequacies in the healthcare system. New data published by the National Center for Health Statistics demonstrates this striking reality and further expounds the extent of the issue of maternal death in America. Whether you or someone you love is currently pregnant, you are considering having a baby, or someone in your family died before, during,...Read More - Safety of U.S. Hospitals for Labor and Delivery
Aug 10, 2018
Is it Safe to Give Birth in a U.S. Hospital? The United States is consistently recognized as the most wealthy, powerful nation in the world. As a leader in technology and innovation, the U.S. has produced breakthroughs and advancements in modern medicine that others in the developed world hope to access. Despite these realities, a recent investigation by USA Today revealed that the U.S. has the highest rate of maternal injury and death among developed...Read More