Spoke to my wife about this earlier, she was a L&D nurse for 20 years.
They’re suing everyone involved, including the hospital. It sets a bad precedent IMO Because there are assuredly a number of people that have no control over this tragedy. There’s probably no way they didn’t tell them the baby was decapitated during the section, which happened after the baby had died and they aren’t going to dress it up like a frankenstein and try to pass it off as intact. They WILL dress them and situate it in swaddling so that the mother can say goodbye, but there will have been no intent to fool the grieving mother. No hospital would ever do that, so I’m not buying they tried to. And c-sections aren‘t just done unless there is a need, so they can’t just “request one” and get one done.
It was a shoulder dystocia. When it happens the doctor has a number of things to try but in the end, the emergency can prove fatal to the baby, mother, or both. In this case the baby died after the doctor was unsuccessful in maneuvering the baby. No idea why a section wasnt attempted while the baby was alive, though. Might be that the death happened fast and at the time the doctor figured there was time to continue maneuvering.
The main thing is we don’t know yet what happened in the delivery room, but we DO know that NBC News just used a headline that is misleading. My first thought was The doctor cut the head off of a live baby while doing a normal section. I had to read it to find out the baby was already dead and that it was a very dangerous condition they were all fighting in the delivery room. So here, the media sensationalizes a tragedy to sway opinion or to get clicks. Pathetic.
In short, the doctor, staff, and hospital did not cause this. It’s one of those things that just happen, and it’s terrible. I feel for this couple, but a lawsuit against every possible entity that couldn’t help that their baby died is a but much.
ODK, maybe I’m all wet. I understand lashing out with a suit if they think there was crazy negligence, but sometimes these things just happen and you have to move on. It isn’t necessarily negligent When a baby dies during childbirth.