Hi,
My lil boys name is Cody and he is 6 months old (was born 19/9/07). 3 weeks ago he had a nerve graph to fix his shoulder. He was 9lb 2 born and was a forseps delivery. His left shoulder got stuck during the delivery and the doctor basically just yanked him out and damaged his shoulder. We were told his arm would be normal in 6 weeks. At 4 months he could only just move his elbow when laying down but still had no shoulder movement. Upon agreeing to his surgery we were led to believe it was a pretty common surgery but none of the nurses looking after him had seen a surgery like this. The surgeon took a nerve out of each calf and placed them in his ahoulder. The surgery took 6 hours and when we saw Cody for the first time after surgery in the ICU he looked in so much pain. 3 weeks on and Cody still has no movement. the surgery doesnt garuantee Cody will get full movement back and we will have to wait 6-12 months to see just what movement he will get. No parents should have to go through this. Surely there is some way to prevent this from happening. Does anyone no what can or could have been done to prevent this from happening again?