http://www.avvo.com/legal-answers-search/birth-injury.html Avvo.com - Birth Injury Questions http://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/unmarried-with-6-month-old---want-my-partner-to-ad-167458.html I want the genetic father to let my partner adopt my baby. He is very controlling, verbally abusive and still wants to have a relationship with me. The baby has know my partner since I was 2 months pregnant, and has been her daddy through pregnancy and birth. She is now 6 months and knows who her parents are. The genetic dad has been very legally aggressive and pushy to get unreasonable amounts of time with her, since she was 3 months old. and won't really listen to me about how to care for her properly. He doesn't seem to care so much about her as he does about control and power. Because things are so rough it's hard to talk to him but I really wish I could ask him to let my partner adopt her. I truly believe she would have a better quality of life - not being split from us with 1 home. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:10:54 PST http://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/how-long-do-i-have-before-i-cant-sue-a-hospital--162753.html I'm from NY and mydaughter was born on 1-5-08 and I took her to the hospital on 1-9-08 because she was puking green. The doctor in the ER said it was bio and i can take her home,but i didnt the next morning a different doctor came in and they had to put her on life support(we were there for 13hours) They rush her to syracuse because her bowls were twisted.They did emergancy surgery and she was there for 4months. Sense then she has had 2 more surgeries.she has had a clostomy and was in the hospital for a month and she just had a reveral to get it removed in august. She has 3 different (huge) scars that she will have for the rest of her life. Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:40:05 PST http://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/birth-mother-left-state-without-giving-a-known-add-162588.html If the birth mom leaves the state and does not notify the court and hasn't seen the kids in 6 months but occassionally call their phone (kiddie phone) they are 6 and 8...can the step-mother who does everything in their lives adopt the kids? what kind of process does that look like and does it usually work? Also the birth-mother has been on supervised visitation for 2 years and was just sentenced to 5 years probation in federal court? thank you Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:42:03 PST http://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/should-i-file-a-malpractice-lawsuit-against-my-ane-161684.html I had a scheduled c-section in June of 08 - during the operation, I could not feel myself breathing and had a panic attack - the anestesiologist was no help during the episode to calm me down and promptly sedated me after my baby was born. My OB just recently told me that I was given too much medicine - I have to have another scheduled c-section in the coming months and am terrified of going through this again as my OB does not want me completely sedated for the birth of this baby. I have no lasting physical effects. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:10:24 PST http://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/hello-i-read-a-topic-here-on-oxygen-loss-and-brain-159440.html Not coming out so they had to take him out with vaccum assistance. When he came out he was breathing but did not cry or moved his apgar score was a 5. The peds doctor was called and she came and told me he was fine but wanted to take the baby to NICU to observe him. 3 hours later she came to my room and told me that the first 3 minutes of my babies life he had seizure and the had to intubate him. He spent 11 days in there. He was discharged on phenobarbital and was referred for therapy. He is now one years, not walking and cannot balance his head to sit. What do you think i can do I had a normal pregnancy. I work as a RN for this hospital to you think I can still do a lawsuit? Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:01:20 PST http://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/do-we-have-a-case-158826.html my daughter was born and i noticed her legs wasnt moving very much and they did an ultrasound and saw a mass on her lower spine and said it was spina bifida and they said we could see a doctor when she was six weeks old. at six weeks old her legs completely quit working and they found the mass had grown to the size of a tennis ball and was to big to remove. it was neuroblastoma so she had to go through chemotherpy. they got to tumor out but she still cant walk and my wife had quit her job to take care of her and nobody will us. so question is this do we have a case. Also my daughter is 16 months old now and surgeons told us when she had her surgery that she would never walk so please help Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:21:23 PST http://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/can-i-sue-for-medicl-malpractice-if-large-pieces-o-158423.html I had my son July 20 2009 and after he came out the doctors were trying to get the placenta to come out and it was coming out in pieces so the doctor stuck her hand and some of her arm inside of me pulling out pieces of the placenta. They sent me home after my stay in the hospital was over. About 2 weeks later I started experiencing painful cramps heavy bleeding and large blodclots coming out of me. I was in tramendous pain and also bleeding until I called the amubulance to come.They took me back to the same hospital were they gave me blood and performed an DNC.Till this day I'm still experiencing pain in my stomach. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:31:23 PST http://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/can-i-sue-one-of-my-family-members-for-childhood-i-156945.html surgery because of it. My testicles were out of place because she had kicked me so hard. Anyways I have nasty scars from the surgery and my lower abdomen still hurts from time to time. I would like to know is this worthy of suing. When I went to the doctors I remember my mom lying to the doctors stating that it was like that by birth. I want to know if I can still sue my sister. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:35:59 PST http://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/yasmin-mass-tort---looking-for-representation-156777.html I suffered a near-fatal pulmonary embolism due to the drug Yasmin and am interested in joining one of the various Mass Torts now starting. I'm confused about how to handle this situation. Many lawyers have reached out to me. How can I distinguish between an ambulance chaser who's no good and a terrific firm who will represent me in the best way possible for the best outcome possible? I've used Martindale.com to do background searchs, but this only gets me so far.... Any advice would be greatly appreciated. My hospitlization was physically and emotionally traumatic, and the last thing I need is a client/lawyer relationship that is not optimal. If I'm to move forward with Mass Tort, I only want to do so with good representation. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:06:30 PST http://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/if-i-only-co-sign-on-my-daughter-s-car-loan-and--s-156571.html If I only co-sign on my daughter's car loan and she titles and insures in her name, can I be held liable for an accident? Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:50:44 PST