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Birth injury attorney Laura Brown of Birth Injury Safety discusses different maneuvers that may be used during labor and delivery. If your baby suffered, please call (888) 741-6200 for a free consultation.

In labor and delivery when the baby gets stuck - so the baby shoulder is stuck under the mother’s pubic bone - there are a series of maneuvers that the doctors and nurses should be trying to do to try to remove that shoulder to get the shoulder unstuck. The first maneuver is suprapubic pressure which is where they put pressure directly over the mother’s pubic bone to try to push that shoulder out to get it unstuck from the pubic bone. If that doesn't work the next maneuver is a Woods screw maneuver where that the provider physically puts his hands in on the shoulder and his or her hands and tries to turn the baby or rotate the baby in a screwing type of maneuver to pull the baby out. The last step really is Zavanelli which happens when the provider decides that the baby needs to be delivered urgently cannot get the baby unstuck from the pubic bone and pushes the baby back up inside the mother to delivered by a Cesarean section of surgical procedure - but it is the last resort and should be used almost never if it can be avoided.