We are currently investigating a claim on behalf of an infant male who was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy soon after birth. During labour, our client’s heart rate was abnormally slow and so the decision was made to help deliver him after approximately 20 hours of labour.
Our client was delivered using forceps, but he was in a poor condition when born. Scans taken shortly after birth revealed that he had suffered an intra-ventricular haemorrhage and brain damage as a result of oxygen starvation during the labour. As a result of this, he has poor muscle control and requires rigorous physiotherapy however the full extent of his injuries may not be clear until he gets older.
We have obtained supportive expert evidence which supports that our client sustained a number of small bleeds in the brain which are likely to have been caused by the trauma of his forceps delivery.
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