Anal Muscle Damage and Birth Tear Negligence Claims
Speak to a legal specialist if you are struggling with the impact of negligent maternity care of the perineum during the birth of your baby.
Severe birth tears and the impact on the anal muscles
Although only a minority of women experience severe perineal tears during childbirth and many are resolved, for those who suffer on-going symptoms, the impact is devastating.
When a woman attends hospital to give birth to her baby, she is not anticipating that this experience will leave her with a lifetime of bowel dysfunction.
Both the physical and psychological impact of just such an outcome can be extremely distressing and significantly affect the way in which the new mother is able to live her life and support her baby.
Negligent maternity care
Third and fourth degree tears, the taboo subject of vaginal childbirth, are serious injuries and, as such, they require scrupulous, prompt and competent medical care.
These appalling injuries cut through the anal muscles which allow a woman to control the passing of wind and faeces. Without accurate diagnosis and prompt and effective repair, the new mother may suffer urgency, leakage, infection, incontinence as well as anxiety and significant loss of confidence.
It is shocking that, sometimes, these terrible injuries are missed by the very maternity staff whose skills should ensure that they are identified and correctly diagnosed.
A failure to examine a new mother, a failure to identify damage and a failure of correct diagnosis may all have devastating results and may justify a claim for compensation.
If a person suffers due to poor quality medical care, they are entitled to claim compensation, and substandard care of a 3rd or 4th degree tear is included in this entitlement.
A woman with severe bowel problems may struggle to work, may struggle to leave her home and may even struggle to bond with her new baby.
She may face a significant loss of income and she may have to pay for specialist treatment or specialist equipment to help her cope with her shocking symptoms.
How to claim compensation
Contact a legal specialist to talk about the possibility of claiming compensation. They will be able to obtain copies of your medical records and analyse the quality of your maternity care for evidence of negligence. Where appropriate, they will support you in making you claim, ensuring that procedures and deadlines are followed in order to ensure that you achieve the best settlement of your claim.
Contact Glynns, specialists in medical negligence law, to talk to a solicitor, free of charge, about the possibility of making a claim.
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