Vacuum Births Can Cause Severe Birth Trauma

Extraction devices are used in around 10 percent of all births and cause certain birth injuries to newborns. Many times, vacuum extractions are used to help with problems in vaginal deliveries, even though they might cause serious injuries.

Vacuum extraction vaginal deliveries are initiated when a mother's life is at risk, an infant is at risk, when labor is slow and when the mother is exhausted from extremely long deliveries.

Vacuum extractions can cause a higher risk for these types of birth injuries. They can cause bruises or scalp abrasions, blood spots on the skull, jaundice, nerve damage, brain hemorrhaging and more. Once these injuries have occurred, the medical staff might misdiagnose the newborns condition and your child may actually die. You need to get legal help if this happens.

This procedure uses a vacuum extractor that will attach to a baby's head using suction and pulls the child down the birth canal. Even when the mother has contractions, head injuries might be quite unavoidable. The suction cup from the pump leaves bruising and quite possibly internal bleeding of the skull.

If these signs aren't detected within a few days, many other problems might show up, such as anemia, respiratory problems and more. Cerebral palsy may also result from birth trauma caused by vacuum extractors.

If your child has suffered birth trauma from vacuum extractors you need to contact a birth injury attorney right away. Our team of legal and medical experts will evaluate your case for free.