About this site
The short answer
I built this because the internet is full of pages about birth injury that exist to find clients, and almost none that exist to help a parent at 2 a.m. work out what happened and what to do next.
This site does not promote, list, rank, name or refer to any attorney or law firm. It has no advertising, no affiliate links, no lead forms and no directory. There is nothing here to buy and nothing to sign up for.
The numbers, up front
- Sources cited
- 110 sources, each with a publisher, a title, a year and a link 1
- Terms defined
- 181 terms and abbreviations in plain English, searchable 2
- States covered
- 51 state hubs, including the District of Columbia 3
- Medical review
- No clinician has reviewed these pages yet. Every clinical page says so at the bottom, in place of a reviewer name 1
Why it exists
Search for a birth injury diagnosis and most of what comes back is written to generate a phone call. It is thin on the medicine, silent on therapy and school and money, and it ends with a form.
Meanwhile the things a family actually needs in the first month are scattered across a dozen federal websites and are not written for someone who has not slept.
So the standard for this site is simple. Every page has to be more specific, better sourced and more practical than what currently ranks for the same question. And it has to cover what law firm content never does: the medicine, the therapy, the school system, the money and the daily life.
What this site will never do
Name, rank, list or refer to any attorney or law firm. There is no directory here and there never will be. The legal pages teach families to evaluate and choose for themselves.
Sell anything, or take advertising or affiliate income.
Collect anything you type. Every tool runs entirely in your browser. Nothing is sent anywhere, and there is no analytics on this site at all. See the privacy policy.
Publish a number without a source. If a figure cannot be tied to a primary source, it is left out and the gap is recorded. See how we use sources.
Invent a reviewer, a quote or a parent story. Nothing on this site is attributed to a person who did not say it.
Tell you that you might have a claim. No page here does that. What the pages do is explain what standard care looks like, what questions to ask, and how to find out what happened.
Who writes it
I write it. I am not a doctor and I am not a lawyer, and this site says so on every page.
What I have done is read the primary sources and write from them: the professional guidance from ACOG and the AAP, government agency material from CDC, NIH and CMS, Cochrane reviews, and the original papers behind the staging systems and grading scales that families are handed without explanation.
Every claim about what standard care looks like is cited to the guidance that says it. Every number carries its source and its year in the same block of text. There are 110 sources listed at all sources.
No clinician has reviewed these pages yet. Every clinical page carries a medical review line that says "Medical review: pending" rather than a name, and it will stay that way until a licensed clinician reviews the page and is named with their credentials and the date. I would rather show you an empty slot than let you assume a review happened.
How it is paid for
It is not funded by advertising, by affiliate arrangements, by sponsorship, or by any referral relationship with any law firm or any provider.
That is the whole point. A site that made money from referrals would be written differently, whatever it said about itself, and you would be right not to trust it.
What I get wrong
Medicine changes. Statutes change. Links rot. Some of this site will be out of date before you read it, and some of it is probably wrong now.
Where I could not verify something, I have said so rather than filling the gap. The clearest example is filing deadlines: statute citations appear for 10 of 51 jurisdictions, and the other pages say plainly that we could not verify them, instead of printing something that might be wrong about a deadline that is permanent if missed.
If you find an error, please tell me. The corrections page explains how, and what happens next.
Who this is for
A parent on a phone at 2 a.m. On a NICU couch, in a hospital parking lot, or awake next to a sleeping toddler.
Scared and tired, with a question that needs answering now.
Everything here is written for that person. Answer first, then depth. Plain words. Every term defined the first time it appears. Nothing dramatic, nothing salesy, and no page that ends by telling you to call someone.
Questions parents ask
Are you a doctor?
No, and this site says so on every page. I write from the primary sources and cite them, so you can check anything you want to check. Every clinical page also carries a medical review slot that currently reads pending, because no clinician has reviewed these pages yet.
Do you make money if I contact a lawyer?
No. There is no referral relationship with any firm, no directory, no lead form and no advertising. The legal pages name nobody and recommend nobody. 4
Can I use this content elsewhere?
Ask first, through the corrections page. What matters more than permission is that anything reproduced keeps its sources and its dates attached, because content about a topic like this without them does harm.
How do I know the tools do not collect anything?
Turn off your internet connection. Every tool on this site still works. The site also ships a content security policy that blocks outbound connections and form submissions at the browser level. See the privacy policy.
Where these facts come from
- American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and American Academy of Pediatrics. Neonatal Encephalopathy and Neurologic Outcome, Second Edition. 2014. www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/task-force-report/ar. Link checked September 3, 2026.
- U.S. National Library of Medicine. MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia. 2025. medlineplus.gov/encyclopedia.html. Link checked September 3, 2026.
- Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center. Part C Coordinators by State. 2025. ectacenter.org/contact/ptccoord.asp. Link checked September 3, 2026.
- American Bar Association. State Bar Association Directory. 2025. www.americanbar.org/groups/bar_services/resources/state-loca. Link checked September 3, 2026.