Father makes birth injury compensation claim

In November 2006 we received a phone call from a distressed father who wanted to make a birth injury compensation claim on behalf of his wife.

He told us how his wife had been admitted to hospital in the early hours of the morning and then remained there in labour for 23 hours. She was starting to act very strangely, so they looked for the midwife who was nowhere to be seen. He mentioned his wife's erratic behaviour and tetchiness to a nurse who put it down to extreme fatigue and laughed saying, you'd be exhausted if you'd been in labour for over 20 hours'. When his wife announced that she wanted her mum to come to the hospital he was a little relieved to go outside and call her to the maternity ward.

On his return, he was told by a nurse that there had been some complications and his wife had been rushed in for an emergency C-section. He told our claims advisors, "They just wheeled her away and there was no more comfort I could offer her, she was taken into a big room full of doctors and I couldn't follow her. I felt so helpless and panicky."

The 28-year-old father of one also told us how it felt like an age from the time he saw his wife being taken through the theatre doors to the time that a midwife came to give him an update on her status. "The look on her face said it all. She approached me in what seemed like slow motion and laid her hand on my arm. I asked her not to say it but she just said I'm so sorry'."

Stunned and distraught, the young man asked about his baby and he was told that she was in a critical condition. He recounted to us how a mixture of emotions from relief to resent flowed over him as he sunk down onto a bench in the hallway.

After what seemed like hours to him he felt the warm embrace of his mother-in-law and they wept together. The next thing he remembered was asking her what had happened and his mother in law telling him that his wife had begun to lose a lot of blood and they had to perform a C-section to try and save them both. But the signs were spotted too late and the mother lost too much blood and the baby had been starved of too much oxygen.

He was taken to visit his baby daughter on a ventilator and he felt so much frustration. He felt love and hate at the same time for the tiny, limp helpless child. He was told he couldn't pick her up and was warned there was a chance that she could develop permanent brain damage.

Two years after the death of his wife, doctors ruled that it was likely that the man's daughter would be left with some learning and social development difficulties as a result of her brain being starved of oxygen at birth.

The young man decided that this was a good point at which to pursue birth injury compensation from the hospital. After consulting with our panel of personal injury solicitors it was found that he had a strong case and the hospital admitted to the negligence which resulted in his wife's death and his daughter's birth injury.

An award of an undisclosed sum was made to the man for his medical negligence claim to compensate his pain, distress and lost earnings. He also received birth injury compensation for his daughter's brain injury, some of which was put away in a savings account and the rest of which was used to pay for a part-time carer.

Claim for birth injury compensation
Have you or someone you care about been affected by a birth injury or accident? You could be in a position to make a no win, no fee compensation claim against the body responsible through us today.

YouClaim are associated with a panel of some of the UK's best personal injury solicitors and we can help those who have been harmed through no fault of their own to claim the compensation that they deserve.

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