At Silberstein & Miklos, P.C., one of the most commonly asked questions we hear is, “Can you sue a hospital for traumatic birth?” The short answer is “yes,” but there are a few things you ought to know. Experts define traumatic birth as a structural or functional impairment of a newborn due to trauma

Giving birth is always a life-changing experience. Unfortunately, this is not always a change for the better. While most childbirths are successful and do not involve any serious complications, there are many cases where the newborn sustains a birth injury. Such injuries are often the result of medical malpractice on the part of the doctor,

In most affluent countries, maternal mortality rates decline year after year. In Britain for instance, mortality rates among mothers are so low that a man is more likely to die while his partner is pregnant than a woman is during pregnancy. Is the same true in America? Short answer: no.   Each year, around 700

Since the early 20th century, it’s been standard practice for physicians to clamp and cut the umbilical cord of a newborn baby immediately after the mother has given birth. For many years, doctors believed that cutting the cord quickly reduced the chances of post-birth hemorrhaging in the mother. Now, however, the American College of Obstetricians