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If you would like to make a claim for medical negligence after a birth injury, then we could help you today.
The risks to an unborn baby are many, and it is the responsibility of medical staff to check the progress of the foetus and the health of the mother at regular intervals throughout pregnancy. During any pregnancy there can be complications, sometimes unforeseen, but the risk of complications increases with multiples.
A room of one's own
A singleton – meaning in medical terms, a baby born alone having not shared the womb with any other siblings – may look forward to having all the room and nutrients it needs if the pregnancy goes to plan.
Multiples
The term "multiples" refers to being pregnant with twins, triplets, or more. The greater amount of foetuses growing in the womb, the more often a doctor and other medical staff should give a mother scans; blood tests and use other pregnancy monitoring techniques.
Risks posed to babies who are sharing their mother's womb with other siblings vary depending on many different circumstances, for example the health of the mother. However, another important factor, which the staff must be aware of in order to monitor the babies correctly, is whether they are having to compete for space or nutrients.
If the babies are sharing the same placenta, or the same amniotic sack, then during later stages of pregnancy one child may become weaker than the other. This may eventually lead to a doctor deciding to deliver the babies early so that the health of the smaller baby does not deteriorate further.
Not only are multiple births generally more complicated, they may vary in complication according to how the eggs in the very first stages of pregnancy have developed. Twins can be Dichorionic - Diamniotic, Monochorionic - Diamniotic, Monochorionic - Monoamniotic, or conjoined.
Complications
Twins who have to share the amniotic sack, the placenta, or both, are always at a greater risk throughout their growth. For example Monoamniotic Dichorionic twins, who share the same amniotic sack, but have separate placentas, have only a 50% rate of survival due to their close proximity to each other. Growing in the same space can mean that their umbilical cords become tangled, or compressed as space becomes tight – posing a risk to their food and oxygen supply.
Medical negligence claims during a multiple pregnancy
If you or your babies have suffered personal injury due to the clinical negligence of medical staff who were responsible for monitoring your pregnancy, then we could help you claim 100% compensation.
Call us on 0800 10 757 95 to speak to an adviser, or take a moment to fill in our short online claim form to be contacted regarding your medical negligence case at a time specified by you.
