An OB-GYN doctor in California has been reprimanded by that state’s medical board for birth injuries caused during the difficult delivery of a large baby.
According to the Santa Cruz Sentinel, the doctor was accused of negligence and incompetence following the Sept. 2002 delivery of a baby weighing more than 9 pounds to a 26-year-old mother. The birth took place at Watsonville Community Hospital in California.
The report stated that the doctor was reprimanded for actions leading up to a birth injury, including failing to follow-up on earlier tests that showed the mother to have gestational diabetes — a condition that can complicate the birthing process. Overweight mothers carrying large infants are at greater risk for birth injuries that occur during difficult vaginal births.
The Sentinel reported that the doctor used excessive suction pulls to deliver the baby, whose shoulder got stuck behind the mother’s pubic bone (a birthing difficulty sometimes referred to as Shoulder Dystocia). The infant was later diagnosed with Erbs Palsy — a condition resulting from nerve damage that causes paralysis of the muscles in the shoulder, arm and hand.
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