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Yes, and babies have been dying at birth since then also.
We lost a son at birth when his lungs would not inflate (bilateral Atelectasis). Birth was normal otherwise.
My MIL lost babies at birth in 1933, and 1954.
I'm sorry to hear that.
I think there are less infant deaths today than there decades and centuries ago but sadly they still happen at birth or even things like SIDS and other accidents.
At the end of the day this accident sounds very rare and I'm not sure the blame can be placed solely on the doctor.
Not defending anyone, but a degree from 1996 would make the doctor roughly 60 years old. I don’t feel that’s too old. I would be concerned having a doctor with a degree that’s from 10 years ago as well.
If you look at the hospital link I left in the post above your comment I'm quoting, the hospital says it specializes in high risk deliveries. I'd imagine that to mean they had a team of employees that were trained to deal with high risk births.
I wonder what events happened such as maybe they were short help, that contributed to it. I'm not seeing anything new in the news. I did find a few articles I had not seen. The mother doesn't look very tall, plus she looks overweight. There are a lot of doctors that do not like doing any kind of surgery on heavy people because the incision may not heal right. My daughter, who is short and over-weight, had to have c-sections when she had her two kids. Both times, her incision took a lot of time to heal. When she had her second, they told her there was a lot of scar tissue they had to cut through.
The article below says that homicide doesn't mean a crime was committed. It also clearly implies that the babies head was cut off in order to deliver the rest of the body through c-section.
My son was born early when we had a huge storm Gloria in the 80's. So many other women went into labor too that there wasn't enough room on the maternity floor for all of us.
Attorneys for the couple say the findings contradict Southern Regional Medical Center's assertion that the baby died in utero before delivery.
"Contrary to what Southern Regional Medical Center put out there that the baby died from complications of shoulder dystocia before the decapitation when they took her back to the operating room," attorney Dr. Roderick Edmond explained, "the medial examiner's office came and determined independently that the cause of death was trauma to the neck, the baby's neck was broken and the baby died."
The Clayton County ME determined the specific cause of death of Treveon Taylor Jr. as a fracture-dislocation with complete transection of the upper cervical (C1-C2) spine and spinal cord. It was caused by shoulder dystocia, arrest of labor, and fetal entrapment in the birth canal.
Other significant conditions contribution to death included pregnancy-induced diabetes and premature rupture of membranes, according to the medical examiner's office.
On July 14, the GBI's medical examiner conducted another autopsy.
On Oct. 19, Chief Honey and Director Byars consulted with an out-of-state OB/GYN who has performed over 10,000 labor deliveries and is a subject matter court expert.
On Oct. 20, Chief Honey and Director Byars consulted with a Georgia-based OB/GYN who has performed over 9,000 labor deliveries and is also an expert.
On Jan. 18, 2024, Chief Honey contacted a private forensic pathologist to review the findings and case files (over 600 pages) and information gathered from the OB/GYNs to determine the cause, manner and other significant conditions in the death of Treveon Taylor.
What happens next?
Homicide means that the death was caused by the actions of another person. It is a general term and may refer to a noncriminal act as well as the criminal act of murder.
“The baby was decapitated for sure as a complication from shoulder dystocia,” attorney Roderick Edmond, himself a doctor who formerly practiced medicine, said Wednesday. “But the standards of care are very, very simple. When there is a shoulder dystocia, there are tried and true things that must be done.”
The delivery resulted in a fracture of the baby’s upper cervical spine according to the medical examiner’s office. Edmond said that proper protocol wasn't followed at multiple steps in the process.
For one, he claimed, doctors should have called for additional resources when they became aware of the shoulder dystocia. Additionally, Edmond added, "The baby’s neck was broken while Dr. [Tracey] St. Julian was applying excessive traction on the baby’s neck in the face of shoulder dystocia.”
Edmond and fellow attorney Cory Lynch both said their focus was on the civil case, and did not speculate whether they believe the medical examiner's homicide ruling meant there was a crime committed.
In its press release, the medical examiner’s office clarified that the cause of death of homicide means the death was “caused by the actions of another person,” which does not necessarily indicate a crime was committed
After the baby was decapitated, his body and legs were removed during a C-section procedure. But the baby’s head was delivered vaginally, the Associated Press previously reported.
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