A Sad Baby Story

[Angry Monkey]

So aa couple my family knows were going top have a baby. The umbilical cord wrapped around the baby's neck and the baby was still born.

I know this is a common problem and I've stories of the doctors seeing umbilical cord was around the baby’s neck and they do an immediate c-section to to save the babies life.
I don't know how the doctors missed this. And I think it's sad that they could've saved the baby's life
I think the couple the should've sued the hospital for wrongful death or negligence.
To add insult to injury after the baby was stillborn they HANDED the mother the baby. Who does that?! That's so cruel.

Should the couple sue the hospital? Especially since they knew the cord was around the baby's neck.

What do you guys think?

 

[Scourge2099]

I don't think they can sue , but don't take my word for it.

 

[Angry Monkey]

Doctor's could've caught the situation and saved it!
They do it all the time

 

[Harls]

Well, since neither I nor you are a doctor, we can't know for certain that the doctors saw it/knew it would be a problem (they aren't psychics you know) or that there was anything they could do to save it if they did realize it was there. I don't think they could or should sue. I realize it is a very tough time for them but having to deal with stressful court dates and possibly for nothing at all would not be worth it... it's just dragging it out. As for the doctor handing the baby to the mother, well, that's pretty common. As a matter of fact there is an organization made specifically for photographing the baby's body, baby + parents, etc if it was stillborn or premature or something else tragic happened, so that way the parents could have memories of it.

Sometimes things we don't want to happen happen in nature. It's sad, but true. Doctors are doctors, not gods or miracle workers. I doubt any one of them saves 100% of their patients 100% of the time, or catches 100% of the symptoms/illnesses/mistakes/etc.

 

[SuperFerret]

Well, since neither I nor you are a doctor, we can't know for certain that the doctors saw it/knew it would be a problem (they aren't psychics you know) or that there was anything they could do to save it if they did realize it was there. I don't think they could or should sue. I realize it is a very tough time for them but having to deal with stressful court dates and possibly for nothing at all would not be worth it... it's just dragging it out. As for the doctor handing the baby to the mother, well, that's pretty common. As a matter of fact there is an organization made specifically for photographing the baby's body, baby + parents, etc if it was stillborn or premature or something else tragic happened, so that way the parents could have memories of it.

Sometimes things we don't want to happen happen in nature. It's sad, but true. Doctors are doctors, not gods or miracle workers. I doubt any one of them saves 100% of their patients 100% of the time, or catches 100% of the symptoms/illnesses/mistakes/etc.

Harls is absolutely right, and I agree with her entirely. Medicine isn't an exact science, despite popular belief.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Lawsuits: making people feel better but not bringing back lost loved ones or easing pain since the 1800s

 

[Angry Monkey]

Even if they can't sue...I still think it's a sad situation

 

[SuperFerret]

It is undoubtedly.

 

[Schlosser85]

It's unquestionably a sad situation, but a lawsuit would have to prove the doctors knew ahead of time that the umbilical cord was wrapped around the baby's neck, and in all honesty, chances are it happened during the birthing process and no one really had any way of knowing it had happened until the baby came out.

 

[doih]

It's unquestionably a sad situation, but a lawsuit would have to prove the doctors knew ahead of time that the umbilical cord was wrapped around the baby's neck, and in all honesty, chances are it happened during the birthing process and no one really had any way of knowing it had happened until the baby came out.

You would also need to prove that the doctors failed to perform to the standards that reasonably prudent doctors would have performed to, and that the injury/death would not have occurred if the doctors had performed to the standard.

 

[THE MR. TERRIFIC]

I don't think they can sue but this is sad, no doubt about it. I'm a dad and I can't begin to fathom the pain they are feeling.

 

[AndThePickles]

It is very sad, but as others have said, there will always be situations that aren't discovered in time/can't be prevented.

 

[Angry Monkey]

It is very sad, but as others have said, there will always be situations that aren't discovered in time/can't be prevented.

Tru.

I just wonder how other doctors catch that situation and save the baby's life...

 

[AndThePickles]

Tru.

I just wonder how other doctors catch that situation and save the baby's life...

While I am certainly not a doctor, in this situation it is entirely possible that NO doctor would have been able to change what happened. Ultrasounds are tricky things...the baby may have been at an angle that the cord around the neck wasn't visible. It also could have wrapped around and strangled the baby too quickly to be caught in time.

Despite all of our advances in medicine, death happens. And this will sound cruel, but it HAS to happen. Death is naturally a part of life. While it is nice to think that death only happens after living a long, happy, and disease-free life, that is unfortunately rarely the case

The most sickening part to me is that situations such as this one occur to responsible parents, and then irresponsible women who purposely don't bother to go to their prenatal visits have healthy children that they then end up killing by shaking them or putting them to sleep in the bed with them due to lack of bothering to learn about their own baby's safety.

 

[SuperFerret]

Tru.

I just wonder how other doctors catch that situation and save the baby's life...

Life is unpredictable, and the field of medicine is working with life itself. Things happen, and we can't explain it, we can't predict it, and we sometimes can't fix it. One doctor might catch something that another misses, which happens, due to doctors being human and therefore subject to a simple mistake. As Pickles said, death happens. Everything possible could be done and something still can go wrong.

As I said earlier, medicine isn't an exact science. Much of it is guesswork, intuition, experience and luck, and there's still a whole lot that we don't really know about, even though they're everyday things. Take anesthesia for example. We're still unsure of exactly why anesthetic gas causes unconsciousness, yet we use it every single day, and most of the time, it goes well.

Sometimes things go wrong and you can trace it to a bad decision, or negligence, or even plain old bad luck, but other times, it's not so simple to figure out.

 

[Hotwire]

This is very sad. However, I can say from experience, doctors can't always tell exactly what's going on in there. When my youngest was born, her cord was tied in a knot. The doctors did not find it until they took her out of my wife's belly, and she had been through numerous ultrasounds. I'm very sorry for their loss.