Support

Parents of children with birth injuries can benefit immensely from practical, financial, and emotional support. Here are some of the many charitable organizations, governmental agencies, and online support groups that provide programs and services specifically designed for families with special needs.

Cerebral Palsy

Brachial Plexus & Erb’s Palsy

Infant Loss

Baby’s Breath Canada
Pregnancy and Infant Loss Network (Ontario)
BC Childloss Support Network Facebook Group (British Columbia)
Pregnancy and Newborn Loss Support Group (Nova Scotia)
The Centre for Reproductive Loss (Quebec)
Empty Arms Perinatal Loss Support Inc. (Saskatchewan)

Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE)

Hope for HIE

Complex and Special Needs

Complex Child (free online monthly magazine)
Family Support for Children with Disabilities (Alberta)
Children & Youth with Special Needs (British Columbia)
Family & Social Support – People with Disabilities (Saskatchewan)
Children’s disABILITY Services (Manitoba)
Ministry of Children & Youth Services (Ontario)
Office des personnes handicapées du Québec
Disability Support Program (Nova Scotia)
Family Supports for Children with Disabilities (New Brunswick)
Disability Support Program (PEI)
Department of Health & Community Services – For Persons with Disabilities (Newfoundland & Labrador)
Family supports for children with disabilities (Yukon)
NWT Disabilities Council (Northwest Territories)
Stanton Territorial Health Authority Child Development Team (NWT/Nunavut)
Healthy Children Initiative (Nunavut)

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HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN YOUR BABY WAS INJURED? FETAL HEART RATE PATTERNS

This is the third in a series of three articles about how medical experts determine when a newborn brain injury occurred. The first article in this series dealt with neuroimaging. The second discussed cord blood gas analysis. A newborn with signs of neurologic injury can suffer that injury any time during pregnancy, during labour and […]

A Letter to Moms of Children with Cerebral Palsy

If you are a mom, you have likely experienced “mom guilt” at one point or another. As a working mother, I have had my fair share. The more I speak with other mothers, the more I realize that it is an almost universal feeling. It is rarely rational and logical, but that feeling remains, all […]

WHAT’S AN APGAR SCORE (and why is it important to my baby)?

What does a 65 year old test have to do with the health of your baby? Although you may not have heard of her, Dr. Virginia Apgar has played a role in the assessment of the well-being of virtually every newborn baby born in Canada, the United States and elsewhere in the world for the […]

HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN YOUR BABY WAS INJURED? UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD GASES

This is the second in a series of three articles about how medical experts determine when a newborn brain injury occurred. The first article explains how birth injury lawyers use medical imaging to determine the timing of a brain injury. The third will discuss fetal heart rate changes. A newborn with signs of neurologic injury […]

Proving causation on the basis of an adverse inference: Benhaim v. St-Germain

In the realm of birth injury lawsuits, one of the most important, and at times, most difficult issues for a plaintiff to establish is the legal element known as causation. In order to succeed with a birth injury claim, not only must the plaintiff prove that the doctors or nurses fell below the standard of […]