Medical malpractice during birth resulting in death of baby. Help.
By <name>/u/InfiniteCarrot8343</name><uri>https://old.reddit.com/user/InfiniteCarrot8343</uri>
Okay this is going to be a long one fair warning. And if you are here to comment that medical malpractice lawsuits are pointless and not worth it, then keep it to yourself. I just want justice for my son and myself. This happened in May of 2025. I was 20 years old and had a normal pregnancy up until the dreaded gestational diabetes test. I failed and was then instructed on how to eat and how to give myself small nightly insulin shots because I was unable to bring my morning fasting number down with just diet. However my numbers were not really that high at all just a little more than the standard. Due to this I was told I must have an induction. This is the standard I have been told. Even tho baby was always weighing on track. I went in on a Wednesday morning at 6 with my boyfriend at side. I was 39 weeks and 4 days. Things started out great, we played Fortnite while the pills they put up there softened my cervix. They did a few of those and I slowly progressed. By midnight my water broke naturally and the pain started. I was insufferable with back labor. By about 2 a.m I called for epidural. My first epidural was great relief. That man was a saint. I layed down and even got some sleep. The next morning the nurses continued to check me every few hours. The doctor had been by once or twice but she was seemingly uninterested and told the nurse to get her when the real action starts. By 8 a.m. they decided I was ready to push. This is when things started going south. I was forced to push for 6 hours straight with little to no breaks. My nurse tried everything she could. I was in all positions we tried all the methods nothing worked. She just kept telling me “just a little more”. The doctor came in a few times, she even did an ultrasound at one point because just now it accrued to her that I had said baby was face up. She decided that was the cause of the length of time I was pushing. Granted I was a first time mom so yes I would say it’s normal at this point. At around
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