Tankerwife
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What is the name of your state? Georgia
My daughter was born July 3, 2001. The morning of her birth I had and amniocentisis to check for lung maturity. Because I had previously went into preterm labor I was to be monitored for and hour and then sent home if everything was ok.
During this time I experienced some major cramping from the amnio. My dr. decided to keep me a while longer. I experienced decelerated rates in the heartbeat and the heartbeat stayed down.
After two more episodes, the dr. decided to perform an emergency c-section after his next surgery.
For some reason they could not get an O.R. to perform the surgery. I waitied from one o'clock until 9:30 for them to do the c-section. Because of the rush the maternity ward experienced during this time, we were put on the back burner because the baby stablized and did not have any more decelerations.
My little girl did have some slight problems at birth. Extremely low body temp, 92.8 degrees and the inablity to maintain her body temp.
Over the past three years we have been to many specialist, ,attended hundred's of hours of therapy and no one can identify what is wrong with her. She had extreme low muscle tone, very delayed in her gross and fine motor skills, extremely speech delayed and has many other problems.
I suspect these problems have something to do with the lack of oxygen and the delay in her arrival.
Because we have not been given a diagnosis could we still seek a malpractice suit against the hospitial because of the delay?
I am not saying the doctor was at fault, he just was not able to get and or.
Not sure what to do.
I know in the state of Georgia the statute is 2 years but because we are now finding out more problems we may have a bye on the statute.
My daughter was born July 3, 2001. The morning of her birth I had and amniocentisis to check for lung maturity. Because I had previously went into preterm labor I was to be monitored for and hour and then sent home if everything was ok.
During this time I experienced some major cramping from the amnio. My dr. decided to keep me a while longer. I experienced decelerated rates in the heartbeat and the heartbeat stayed down.
After two more episodes, the dr. decided to perform an emergency c-section after his next surgery.
For some reason they could not get an O.R. to perform the surgery. I waitied from one o'clock until 9:30 for them to do the c-section. Because of the rush the maternity ward experienced during this time, we were put on the back burner because the baby stablized and did not have any more decelerations.
My little girl did have some slight problems at birth. Extremely low body temp, 92.8 degrees and the inablity to maintain her body temp.
Over the past three years we have been to many specialist, ,attended hundred's of hours of therapy and no one can identify what is wrong with her. She had extreme low muscle tone, very delayed in her gross and fine motor skills, extremely speech delayed and has many other problems.
I suspect these problems have something to do with the lack of oxygen and the delay in her arrival.
Because we have not been given a diagnosis could we still seek a malpractice suit against the hospitial because of the delay?
I am not saying the doctor was at fault, he just was not able to get and or.
Not sure what to do.
I know in the state of Georgia the statute is 2 years but because we are now finding out more problems we may have a bye on the statute.