This should never happen :(

[twinkles**stars]

Yes there are always risks but this should never have happened. So very sad 😞

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2533493/We-heard-pop-like-pottery-cracking-Parents-heartbrok...

The parents of a baby girl who died after her skull was crushed during a forceps delivery are suing the Texas hospital where she was born.

Rachel Melancon had experienced a healthy pregnancy, but when a doctor at the Medical Center of Southeast Texas used forceps during the birth on December 28 it had devastating consequences.

As the medical device was clamped around her baby's head, the 24-year-old and her fiance Allen Coats claim they heard a popping sound as their daughter's skull was crushed.

Heartbroken: Allen Coats and Rachel Melancon with baby Olivia whose skull was crushed during an attempted forceps delivery

Damage: Baby Olivia was born with a fractured skull and broken spinal cord, which left her brain damaged

The baby girl, named Olivia Marie, survived for five more days after being left brain damaged and with a fractured skull and severed spinal cord.

Her parents plan to sue their obstetrician, Dr George T Backardjiev, and the Medical Center of Southeast Texas.

The couple have also started a Facebook campaign page to petition against the use of forceps in all births.

Ms Melancon, at 4ft 11in and weighing 95lb before she became pregnant, had asked for a cesarean section when her baby was overdue and large, considering her mother's petite frame.

The link gives the full story.........

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how sad.

a warning aout the distressing photo would have been good... not posting it would have been even better...

[twinkles**stars]

Distressing....only to you? There is always the option of not opening my threads....hence saving you the need to post something negative

[***super_nova***]

Oh, well it was in the newspapers so it has to be true. 

The article said that the baby's head was full engaged and had to be pulled back during the C-section.  In cases like this it is then question whose life to save, the mother or the baby.  Of-course, the parents are suing, in USA everybody sues. 

[twinkles**stars]

There is a FB page by the parents where the facts are clear. No newspaper article. The mother asked for a c section due to her small frame. The doctor refused....the force in which the forceps were used crushed the baby's head and severed the spine.

Would you not be upset and want the doctor held accountable?

Everyone sues in the USA? No that is untrue.

[i-once-was-bump]

No amount of money will ever make up for what the parents and the baby had to go through but there has to be some sort of compensation so that doctors think before they do the same thing to another baby.

By giving compensation to the parents will mean insurance premiums for doctors will rise and we are experiencing a shortfall in the number of doctors willing to deliver babies now due to the "sue the pants off them mentalilty" of some parents.

When a baby is born with lifelong problems the only way to get any cash is to sue the doctor who delivered the baby because the insurance company will more than likely settle out of court and the parents will have the much needed cash to raise a child with severe problems. The doctor isn't necessarily at fault but their premiums will rise so they will no longer deliver babies.

As less and less doctors are willing to be involved in obstetrics those few doctors will have a high number of difficult births because they will all be referred to the few remaining doctors and then the premiums for those doctorw will see them needing to deliver about 1,000  babies each year just to pay their premiums and that is before any tax or expenses is taken into account.

[nicnacs_4u]

I wish I had known there were graphic pics on show too..very sad & not something I wanted to see

[twinkles**stars]

What graphic pics, where? A baby with tubes? The head pic was no more than that of my grandson after birth....slightly cone shape.

[donnashuggy]

You have to be fully educated, informed and undertand it to pass any comment or judgement.

[twinkles**stars]

Coping and pasting my comment from another thread is childish Donna

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@twinkles**stars wrote:

What graphic pics, where? A baby with tubes? The head pic was no more than that of my grandson after birth....slightly cone shape.

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rubbish, the pics are of a dying baby showing the external signs of the trauma of its birth.

there was no need to post them, a link leaving the choice of viewing them up to the individual would have been more than sufficient.