Thanks for your replies :) Kate, your thoughts actually only add to my uneasiness about the diagnosis. There's absolutely nothing in the birth that might have caused a BPI, second stage was less than 2 minutes and she birthed herself onto the bed too fast for the midwife to catch her so definitely n...

Hi all, My 5-month old daughter has just been diagnosed with Erb's Palsy. Although we've known since about 3 months that there was something wrong with her arm, it's a real shock as her birth was straightforward, there was no traumatic injury and she had three paeds checks in her first week which di...