Coping with your child's birth injuries while making an accident claim

Each year a huge number of expectant parents face the traumatic experience of their child suffering birth injuries because of clinical negligence. Not only can the financial outcome of an accident claim make life easier, there are a number of organisations in the UK to help parents and carers cope with having a child with disabilities.

Welcoming a newborn into the world is meant to be one of the happiest times of your life. However, when there are complications during the labour and your little one suffers birth injuries as a fault of negligence, you can easily feel like your world has turned upside down.

Parenting organisations throughout the UK can help people not only realise their full potential as a full-time carer but work towards offering the best care for their child. Here is just one of the groups you may like to consider joining.

Contact a Family
Contact a Family is charity specifically for families with disabled children. They offer expert advice about rare disorders and all aspects of disabilities and offer valuable advice from parents in similar circumstances.

According to Contact a Family, a child is diagnosed with a severe disability every 25 minutes and although some of those children need hospital care, 98% will live at home with a parent or carer. It can therefore be quite a sharp learning curve for many families who will have to quickly adapt to their child's needs.

Each year the Contact a Family website reaches around 275,000 families, with many of those able to pinpoint a birth injury to their child's disability. Just as you might be in the process of making an accident claim for medical negligence, you may also find another family with a similar story who can offer you their advice on the subject.

Contact a Family is currently in touch with 300 national groups and 1,000 local groups. If you would like more information about getting in touch with a group, visit www.cafamily.org.uk.

Making an accident claim for birth injuries
If you have been affected by some of the issues discussed above and believe clinical negligence was the cause of your child's birth injuries, you could be able to make a compensation claim with the help of YouClaim.

With the help of a personal injury solicitor who specialises in birth injury cases, you could be a step closer to gaining the compensation that you and your family so rightly deserve. When you make a claim, your birth injury solicitor will not charge you legal fees, whether you win or lose, and if your case has a successful outcome you will keep hold of 100% of the damages awarded.

There are several ways to contact YouClaim. If you would like to speak with an advisor from the comfort of your computer desk, why not use our online chat service or even request a call back for a more convenient time.

Alternatively, you can chat to an advisor straight away by calling YouClaim on 0800 10 757 95.