A recent study conducted by Kaiser Permanente shows that the number of women with type 1 and type 2 diabetes has doubled between 1999 and 2005. Diabetes is a serious disease which can have a dangerous impact on pregnancy.

The study shows that in 1999 the 0.81 percent out of 100 women had a preexisting form of diabetes while pregnant. In 2005, the amount of women with preexisting diabetes jumped to 1.82 per 100 births.

The researchers that conducted the study claim that the rise in diabetes is linked with the rise in obesity. Both obesity and diabetes can lead to serious conditions during pregnancy, leaving the child more susceptible to birth injuries.

Diabetes increases the risk of miscarriage, still birth, birth defects and difficult deliveries. It is very important that a doctor monitors pregnant women with diabetes.

Birth injury attorneys are working on cases in which doctors and hospitals have failed to properly monitor and care for pregnant women with diabetes, resulting in serious birth trauma.  
 

Diane Goslin received a cease and desist order from the state of Pennsylvania State Board of Medicine in August, 2007. She is being charged with practicing medicine and midwifery without a license.

Diane Goslin received her cease and desist order due to the death of an Amish baby that she delivered in 2005, despite the fact that the county coroner determined that the death was not her fault.

A rally was held on her behalf on April 9, 2008. Hundreds of Amish were present who support the custom of midwifery as an alternative to hospital births.

As a certified professional midwife, Diane Goslin does not have the degrees required by the state of Pennsylvania in order to practice midwifery. In the United States, 22 states allow a certified professional midwife to practice without obtaining a nursing degree. New Jersey is included.

Pennsylvania is one of the many states that require midwives to obtain nursing degrees and work in collaboration with obstetricians or other kind of physicians. This requirement is in place in an attempt to prevent serious birth injuries and birth trauma.

Because of the serious risk involved in delivering a child, nurse-midwives are subject to the same restrictions as obstetricians.

Birth injury attorneys are working on cases in which serious trauma during birth has resulted in life-long disability or death.

In South Florida, many obstetricians have stopped delivering babies and caring for high-risk patients in an attempt to avoid rising medical malpractice premiums.

The decreasing number of available obstetricians is causing longer waits to see a doctor and a severing of doctor/patient relationships.

The Palm Beach County medical society is projecting a 30 percent decrease of obstetricians. They also project that the need for obstetricians will grow by 7 percent in three years.

With fewer doctors on hand and long waiting times for appointments, major medical problems can go undetected. This can lead to devastating consequences during the birth of a child, possibly leading to serious birth injuries.

Birth injury attorneys are working on cases that involve the life-long suffering that occurs after serious birth trauma.