Shock pics show baby girl with huge cut across her face after emergency C-section delivery
A BABY girl was born with a huge cut on her face that she suffered during an emergency C-section delivery, heartbroken family members have revealed.
Little Kyanni Williams suffered the deep gash to her left cheek and had to get 13 stitches to seal the wound immediately after being born at Denver Health, in Colorado, on Wednesday.
“To have your granddaughter born to come out to see the plastic surgeon, to get 13 stitches, is devastating, it’s heartbreaking,” the baby’s grandfather, Walter Williams, told Fox 31.
“It’s upsetting, she’s not comfortable,” added Damarqus Williams, the baby’s father.
According to Damarqus and the girl’s mother, Reazjhana Williams, the plan had been to deliver Kyanni naturally.
Reazjhana said doctors at Denver health gave her a pill to speed up her labor on Wednesday, and within minutes she was rushed into surgery to undergo an emergency cesarean.
“They said our baby made a sudden movement they couldn’t hear her heartbeat or find it and they took her into an immediate C-section,” Damarqus said.
After the procedure, instead of experiencing joy and celebration, the Williams’ said they suffered heartbreak and frustration when they noticed the deep cut to Kyanni’s face.
The pair said doctors told them that Kyanni’s head was close to the placenta wall when they carried out the C-section.
“I tried to be understanding about what happened, but on top of the fact her face got cut and a plastic surgeon had to come do it, there’s just a lot of things I’m not understanding with the C-section,” Reazjhana said.
“I’ve never heard of anybody having to deal with their baby’s face looking like this after a C-section.”
The baby’s grandmother, Tashaira Williams, has called for the doctors involved to be “held accountable.”
“I don’t think that’s right,” she said. “They have to be held accountable for what they did.”
According to Fox 31, babies rarely suffer cuts during C-sections.
“I’ve done over probably 2,500 deliveries and I assisted on C-sections, that’s the first time I’ve ever seen that,” Advance Practice Nurse Lisa Merck told the network.
“That is kind of one of the things that can happen, but it is really, really rare.”
A study carried out by the Child Health and Human Development Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units Network also found such occurrences to be incredibly rare.
Of more than 37,000 C-sections carried out at 13 different hospitals between 1999 and 2000, only 0.7 percent of babies suffered an abrasion.
In a statement, Denver Health acknowledged the incident and said it was communicating with the Williams’ family.
“Denver Health has been in touch with the family directly. While this is a known medical complication in emergency C-sections, our focus is always on providing care in the best interest of the mother and child,” a spokesperson said.
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“At Denver Health, the safety and well-being of our patients is our number one priority.”
The Williams family has set up a GoFundMe page to help cover costs for an attorney as they weigh their legal options.
So far, the family has raised just over $100 of its $10,000 goal.