Very few people know the risk of the baby suffering a scalpel injury during a C-section, however it is a risk that exists and is documented.
It has happened recently in Argentina, at the Juan Domingo Perón Hospital, where doctors practiced a Caesarean section to the mother with the bad luck that she was provoked deep wound the baby, near the left ear.
The parents have denounced the doctors to justice in order to know what really happened during the birth, because they apparently received several versions of the facts.
At the time he was born they realized that they had made a cut and transferred the baby to intensive care, where was sutured with 16 points (between internal and external points). When the father asked why they were taking him, they explained that nothing was wrong, that he only had a short cut and that he had not even bled.
The father, seeing the wound, asked for explanations from the doctors who made the caesarean section, because "a short cut" does not usually require 16 stitches. One of them told him that due to the mother's obesity, they had to remove the baby in a different way than usual and that doing so "scraped a little". The other instead explained that they had done it unintentionally with a clamp.
Before the difference of versions the father went to the head of Neonatology that only tried to remove iron to the matter explaining that it was not serious and that he had to have patience. The parents, as any couple would do before such a mess, decided then file a complaint to know the facts.
The mother, Carina, explains it like this:
They were very upset about having to operate to the point that they never gave me an explanation of how it was that my baby was born with that big wound. We decided to make the complaint to investigate and take appropriate action with these doctors. In addition, I want my son to have studies done to see how he is doing, because of the 16 points, five were interns, and I'm afraid that he has a sequel.
Three years ago we talked about it in Babies and more and we explain that the risk of injury or injury in the baby during a C-section is between 1.9% and 3.12%.
