by Marcus Boston | Mar 29, 2024 | Birth Injuries, Blog, Cerebral Palsy, HIE (Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy)
When talking about safeguarding your baby’s birth journey from the umbilical cord squeezed to an HIE brain injury, we must explain umbilical cord compression. For some families, little is known about cord compression in general, not to mention the role it...
by Marcus Boston | Mar 22, 2024 | Birth Injuries, Blog, Cerebral Palsy, HIE (Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy)
When discussing contractions and your baby in labor and delivery, it is impossible to have the discussion we will have today without mentioning the electronic fetal heart monitor. The reason for this talk is a conversation we had with a mother who did not have...
by Marcus Boston | Mar 20, 2024 | Birth Injuries, Blog, Cerebral Palsy, HIE (Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy)
How does an HIE baby spend their money if they get a medical malpractice recovery? To broaden the question some, I will discuss how families deal with payouts when there is a birth injury recovery. With the above stated, please remember that...
by Marcus Boston | Mar 12, 2024 | Birth Injuries, Blog, Cerebral Palsy, HIE (Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy), How Lawsuits Work
As the title of this post suggests, it deals with a mother’s reflection on the impact on her baby’s HIE brain injury. With that said, there is another layer to this post that deals with her views surrounding, in her words, the medical malpractice,...
by Marcus Boston | Mar 9, 2024 | Birth Injuries, Blog, Cerebral Palsy, HIE (Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy), How Lawsuits Work
Understanding the long-term impact of HIE brain injuries on your baby’s development is something that I think needs to be covered more in-depth because for families dealing with a baby with an HIE brain injury figuring out the future can be a challenge. With...
by Marcus Boston | Feb 27, 2024 | Birth Injuries, Blog, Cerebral Palsy, HIE (Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy), How Lawsuits Work
Empowering families and helping them to understand not only their baby’s HIE injury, but legal solutions that may be available is something that I want to cover in more detail. The companion video which supports this post was deliberately created as a...
by Marcus Boston | Feb 22, 2024 | Birth Injuries, Blog, Cerebral Palsy, HIE (Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy), How Lawsuits Work
Today we will discuss why does your baby’s umbilical cord matter in the context of a traumatic brain injury at birth. The type of brain injury that we will be covering is a hypoxic brain injury. Understanding the umbilical cord gas can be critical...
by Marcus Boston | Feb 7, 2024 | Birth Injuries, Blog, Cerebral Palsy, HIE (Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy), How Lawsuits Work
Oxygen deprivation at birth can cause cerebral palsy in some cases. This issue comes up frequently with families who may have recently been given an HIE diagnosis for their baby. For many families this is the first time they have had to think about something...
by Marcus Boston | Feb 2, 2024 | Birth Injuries, Blog, Cerebral Palsy, HIE (Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy), How Lawsuits Work
How does my baby make a claim for their HIE brain injury at birth? This was a question that was posed to me by a mother who was looking for a way to help her baby following a traumatic brain injury like HIE. Mom made it clear to me that she did not want to sue...
by Marcus Boston | Jan 30, 2024 | Birth Injuries, Blog, Cerebral Palsy, HIE (Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy), How Lawsuits Work
The focus today is on nurse liability with a baby’s HIE brain injury. To understand the context of this post you must know a little bit of a conversation that took place with a mother I spoke with regarding a birth injury investigation. This...
