Birth Injury Blog

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An incident takes place when a baby suffers some physical injury at a time of birth process, that incident is called Birth Injury. Sometimes the size and position of the baby is main cause of the birth injury. Baby’s weighing more then 4000gms (8 pounds or 13 ounces) may get injury during birth process because it is difficult to deliver by the mother. Pre-maturity is also a big factor to affect birth process, Baby coming before the actual times are very prone to birth injuries.7iv2c3jny8

Babies are very soft and cannot withstand with pressures. Sometimes mother’s pelvis can also cause birth injury. If pelvis is not compatible to the size of baby, it affects the baby and this injury is called cephalopelvic disproportion. Sometimes baby can suffer some abnormal birth conditions like coming by buttocks first that may be very risky as well as baby survival condition may be very less. Some common causes are being explained below:

* Caput succedaneum- It is a kind of serious swelling on soft tissue of baby’s forehead that develops when baby travels in birth canal. This disappears within a few days. Babies born by vacuum extraction are very prone to this injury.

*  Cephalohematoma- In this case, baby’s body gets squeezed and bleeding takes place below the cranial bones. It appears after some hours and last up to two weeks to three months depending upon the size of the area. This result in large breakdown of Red Cells and may cause jaundice in new born baby. Read the rest of this entry »