Archives for February 2015

The costs associated with emergency healthcare in New Orleans have the potential to bankrupt families, and that’s never more true than when the victim is a newborn who was injured during birth. When your doctor’s negligence in delaying necessary procedures like a C-section resulted in injury to your baby, you should take every step to protect your […]

Erb’s palsy is a form of paralysis caused by damage to the nerves connecting the shoulder to the spine, in a region called the brachial plexus. It is a common birth injury that can be caused when a baby is pulled from the birth canal, or when the baby is too large for easy passage […]

While many women in New Orleans are able to successfully deliver subsequent children vaginally after a previous cesarean section delivery, the procedure has risks, and not all women are good candidates for Vaginal Birth After C-Section (VBAC). The most serious complication from VBAC, uterine rupture, occurs when scar tissue from the previous C-section tears open, […]