During a home birth, a delay in getting the baby to the hospital for a C-section when the baby was getting no oxygen (due to a uterine rupture and prolapsed umbilical cord) caused the baby to have permanent brain damage....
A baby has hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) & cerebral palsy because her mom had placenta previa that the physician failed to appreciate & he delayed a necessary C-section delivery, causing the baby to experience severe birth asphyxia....
New treatment for cerebral palsy prevention looks promising. Allopurinol has been shown to increase oxygenation in an unborn baby in preliminary studies....