Birth Injuries & Prenatal Care

Birth Injuries and Prenatal Care Tamara Holder Law

Pregnancy and child birth is supposed to be the most sacred time in a woman’s life. Unfortunately, in the U.S., birth injuries affect approximately 30,000 babies annually, and a baby is born with a birth injury about every 20 minutes. Birth injuries contribute to 20% of all infant deaths. 

Many types of neglect can leave the mother and her child unwell or even cause death. Failure to provide proper checkups, ultrasounds, testing. .

High blood pressure in pregnancy:

• Severe gestational hypertension is high blood pressure that you develop while you are pregnant. It starts after you are 20 weeks pregnant. You usually don’t have any other symptoms. In many cases, it does not harm you or your baby, and it goes away within 12 weeks after childbirth. But it does raise your risk of high blood pressure in the future. If it becomes severe, it can lead to a preterm birth or your baby having a low birth weight. Some women with gestational hypertension do go on to develop preeclampsia, a more serious type of high blood pressure in pregnancy.
• Chronic hypertension is high blood pressure that starts before the 20th week of pregnancy or before you became pregnant. Some people may have had it long before becoming pregnant but didn’t know it until they got their blood pressure checked at their prenatal visit. Sometimes chronic hypertension can also lead to preeclampsia.
• Preeclampsia is a sudden increase in blood pressure after the 20th week of pregnancy. It usually happens in the last trimester. Preeclampsia also often includes signs of damage to some of your organs, such as your liver or kidneys. The signs may include protein in the urine (pee) and very high blood pressure. Preeclampsia can be serious or even life-threatening for both you and your baby