When you deliver your child in the hospital, you’re trusting the medical care team to keep your child safe and ensure that they’re as healthy as possible when they’re born. Though this is what happens in most instances, accidents can lead to birth injuries that may have lifelong consequences for your child if not treated…
Your medical care team is there to help you through delivery, looking out for both your well-being and the well-being of your child. However, birth injuries can happen even when you think your medical providers are doing everything right. The sooner you can catch those injuries, the easier it will be to get your child…
Birth injuries most commonly happen during delivery. While some of them happen completely outside of a doctor’s ability to control or prevent, others can be the result of a lack of care from your medical team. Your Pennsylvania birth injury attorneys at Latona Law want to help you keep yourself and your child healthy. Here…
Every parent wants their child to be healthy from the moment they enter the world into their old age. But there’s always a risk of birth injuries and birth defects that can make living a healthy life more challenging. Birth injuries and defects can lead to similar challenges, but they happen in different ways. Your…
Whether it’s your first child or your fifth, you want them to have the best life possible. But errors and accidents that happen in the hospital can lead to life-altering birth injuries that make your dreams for your child feel impossible. Even minor birth injuries can result in hefty expenses immediately following the birth and…
Worldwide, roughly 40 million women develop long-term health issues and concerns as a result of childbirth. While the number of incidents is lower in America, birth injuries can happen to both the mother and child at any point during delivery. Even with top-notch medical facilities, birth injuries can and do happen. Your Pennsylvania birth injury…
When you give birth in a hospital, you expect the doctors and medical care team to keep you and your child safe. While this is the most common outcome, there are times when the medical care team ends up causing preventable harm to you or your baby. If your baby is injured, working with a…
There are many different types of birth injuries that can occur even under seemingly ideal circumstances. Many of those injuries can lead to permanent conditions, like cerebral palsy, that can impact your child’s ability to live a normal life or to keep up with their peers developmentally. Nearly 10,000 babies are born with some degree…
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), one in every 36 children has some degree of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). While the exact cause of autism is still unknown, some external factors, including birth injuries, may increase the risk of a child being diagnosed with autism at a later age. The Pennsylvania birth injury…
Giving birth to a child is both exciting and stressful, no matter how many times you’ve done it in the past. It’s why so many families choose to have their children in hospitals and rely on the expertise of their medical care team to deliver their children safely. When your child is injured during delivery,…
