Questioning the Quality of Your Maternity Care
Negligent post-natal maternity care can blight a woman's life. Contact a specialist solicitor if you are struggling with the impact of a 3rd or 4th degree tear. They will be able to investigate the quality of your care.
Unrepaired severe birth tear
If you are experiencing distressing and debilitating bowel problems following the vaginal birth of your baby, it is possible that your maternity care failed to protect your perineum and anal sphincter.
Perineal tears are common in vaginal childbirth as the pressure of the baby's birth on the vagina and perineum causes an injury to develop.
It is the responsibility of maternity professionals to check for any sign of damage and to ensure that, where a tear has occurred, it is correctly diagnosed and fully repaired.
Some women suffer a severe tear which affects their control of the passing of wind and faeces.
If such an injury is not diagnosed and repaired, the new mother will experience some degree of anal dysfunction and loss of control.
Negligence and compensation
Third and fourth degree tears are a known risk and so any injury should be identified. A failure to carry out an examination of a new mother or a failure to make a correct diagnosis and repair when a severe tear has occurred, may be regarded as negligent.
The consequences can be extremely distressing and can have a broad impact on the new mother's quality of life. This situation can worsen as the woman ages.
If negligence is established, a successful claim for compensation will address the ways in which the negligence has affected the woman's quality of life.
For example, some women find that they are unable to return to their former employment because the nature and severity of their bowel symptoms makes it impossible or inappropriate. This can apply to careers in education, hospitality, healthcare, policing to name but a few.
A woman may also find that the complications of managing her symptoms mean that, even where she is able to work, her hours are restricted.
Any loss of income, both past and future, caused by the negligent symptoms could be included in a claim as could the costs of specialist treatment or equipment to manage the distressing symptoms.
Free specialist legal advice
Glynns Solicitors is a dedicated medical negligence legal firm. We have worked with numerous women in pursuing claims for compensation for their negligent maternity care, recognising the distress which these injuries can cause and the relief which a successful claim can bring.
Contact us today to talk to a solicitor, free of charge, about the possibility of making a claim for the impact of your negligent maternity care.
We can offer No Win No Fee medical negligence funding which we will discuss with you during your free initial telephone discussion.
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