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Kimberly Kirkwood-Boulter was admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital<\/a> to deliver her first baby. During labor and delivery, the nurse responsible for monitoring the baby\u2019s heart rate had difficulty differentiating Kirkwood-Boulter\u2019s heartbeat from her unborn baby\u2019s. This occurred during the second stage of labor, which lasted about 6 hours. <\/p>\n

In spite of all of this, Kirkwood-Boulter was encouraged to push, and the obstetrical team did not switch from intermittent fetal monitoring by way of a handheld device to continuous monitoring.
\nKirkwood-Boulter\u2019s baby boy was born severely acidotic and not breathing. The baby\u2019s Apgar scores were one at one minute and three at five minutes, which are low scores for a newborn. Now the child is 6 years old and suffers from brain damage. He cannot walk, talk or feed himself. <\/p>\n

Kirkwood-Boulter and her husband sued the hospital, members of its delivery team, and the employer of the attending nurse, Cross Country Staffing Inc.<\/a> It was alleged in the lawsuit that these defendants chose not to provide continuous monitoring during the labor and delivery.
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Kimberly Kirkwood-Boulter was admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital to deliver her first baby. During labor and delivery, the nurse responsible for monitoring the baby\u2019s heart rate had difficulty differentiating Kirkwood-Boulter\u2019s heartbeat from her unborn baby\u2019s. This occurred during the second stage of labor, which lasted about 6 hours. 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