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Story by: laura davis in chesapeake va 23320

hi my name is laura my daughter desiree was not dign with erbs palsey at first see my oldest daughter was only 6 pounds and with desiree she came out at 9 pounds exactlly and there was no reason why there could not tell me how much she was going to weigh especially since i had an aulto sound 36 weeks since i had complations with her since the begingig.
anyway when i finaaly dialted at 10 i pushed for atleast 2 hrs i was week and tired finally rh doctor was talking about sea section which should of been palnned from the beoging but she said that i would be fine well then she said we will try to suction her out at first then after that don't work we will go ahead with the c section well after using the vacum her head came out but her shoulder was so big she was stuck and it was too late to to go back in so she cut me all the way as far as she could and still she would not move to make it wrst she was faced up and the cord saround her neck she was blue she told me she had to beak her shoulder to get her out when she finally came out they notice no movement in her left side and that was not the shoulder she tried to break what had happend is when she tried to break her shoulder the left side was still inside of me so it tore her nevers up which they did not know at the time and tried to tell me she had a broken clavicle but when the x-rays came back that it
wasn't that when they told me that her nevers was propbly strech and that she will get movement in shortly after 3 months nothing and after a mrui was down they told me abot erbs paley and that her nerve is complty torn in half. she in occ thearpy now and has to have esteam to work her nervesand is only 1 months

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