It is difficult to know what to do when a parent suspects something went wrong in the delivery room, but a good first step is to understand the causes and symptoms of birth injuries.<\/p>\n
Birth injury symptoms often do not appear in the delivery room and sometimes they do not show up for weeks or months. Late-showing symptoms include delays in reaching milestones of child development like sitting up, standing and walking.<\/p>\n
Spotting birth injury symptoms often is a result of knowing what is not happening in the child\u2019s development. Each developmental stage has its own milestones that a growing baby should be meeting for movement, visual cues, and hearing.<\/p>\n
A one-month old should be able to bring its hands up to its mouth, for example, and turn toward familiar sounds and voices. A three-month-old, on the other hand, should be able to follow moving objects with its eyes and support its upper-body with (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is difficult to know what to do when a parent suspects something went wrong in the delivery room, but a good first step is to understand the causes and symptoms of birth injuries. Birth injury symptoms often do not…<\/span><\/p>\n