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One in two hundred live births involve some type of injury to the infant. A birth injury is different from a birth defect. Personal injury lawyers tend to become specialists because medical cases are handled by doctors, who are specialists. For this reason, a competent birth injury attorney may not get involved in birth defect cases per se. Birth injuries are injuries that happened during labor and birth. The cause of the injury could be a doctor or nurse's action or it could be some other aspect of the medical environment.

Brain damage due to a birth injury usually means perinatal asphyxia or vacuum extractors. Usually, birth injuries are caused by an improper procedure. This is different than the cause of birth defects. Birth defects can occur at the moment of conception or at different times during gestation. Ask you doctor straight out whether your child's condition is the result of a birth defect or a birth injury. Get as much info from your physician as you can get - and take notes.

Start a journal so you have a running record of your child's condition and the child's development. The wheels of justice grind slowly, and all that. So keep a record of everything, starting now. The type pf attorney you want would look like this in a hypertext links track: attorney / personal injury / birth injuries / brain damage.

Use a lawyer who at least specializes in birth injuries. A sub-specialization in brain injuries would be fine, but brain injuries account for half of all disabilities stemming from birth injuries, so an experienced birth injury attorney will also be an experienced attorney when it comes to brain damage.

Let the lawyer lead you at the meeting. Answer questions clearly and to the point. If you show the attorney that you are prepared and serious, he will be, too. If the lawyer wants to take your case, he will probably try to just move you into it without you even noticing. Notice. Thank him/her for wanting to take your case and ask for two references.

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