Editorial Guidelines

Birth injury is defined as damage that occurs as a result of the birthing process. The more specific concerns are harm that befalls the baby before, during, and shortly after birth. Included in these adverse circumstances are debilitating short-term and long-term effects. Unfortunately, the physical and mental health repercussions for mothers and children who have sustained birth injuries can span years.

Birth Injury Center is a highly specialized website created to support women, children, and families. The Birth Injury Center site at birthinjurycenter.org is committed to helping parents through the complicated process of coping, accepting, and managing these unforeseen situations with their newborn. Sometimes birth injuries are preventable, and we aim to educate and inform pregnant people about birth injuries, so they are best positioned to prevent them.

This website was created by people with an in-depth understanding of birth injuries. We want to help new parents manage birth injuries as best they can. The content published across the Birth Injury Center website has been thoroughly investigated and approved by medical expert Patricia Shelton, MD. By joining Birth Injury Center as a medical content writer and reviewer, Dr. Shelton seizes an incredible opportunity to help people combat the confusion of birth injuries. She has advocated for women going through some of the darkest times of their lives and employs a high level of empathy for every condition displayed throughout our site.

Dr. Shelton is a well-established medical content creator with a long-running track record in medical communications. Patricia has devoted her life and professional practice to educating people on important health and medical matters. As a doctoral-level expert in the study of the human body, she is passionate about helping people discover and appreciate the power they hold in their bodies. Patricia injects enthusiasm into every teaching opportunity, whether she is teaching through written articles, lecturing college-level science courses, or training yoga teachers. She teaches anatomy and physiology courses at the National Institutes of Health and is an instructor for yoga teacher training programs. Her unique approach to yoga instruction combines her Western science knowledge with Eastern yoga techniques and methodologies.

The expertise Patricia brings to Birth Injury Center as a whole goes beyond her career as a doctor, professor, and yoga practitioner. She is highly sought after to create and evaluate health-related websites, test prep materials, white papers, court documents, etc. Her book, The Yoga Doctor, was published in 2015.

Dr. Shelton maintains an energetic presence across the Birth Injury Center website. Most of the content on our website is written by Patricia, and that which she doesn’t write, she exercises due diligence in preventing misinformation on these sensitive topics. The content on our site is routinely reviewed to ensure integrity. While investigating the content, Patricia relies on her years of academic and professional experience and the expert knowledge of her colleagues at Birth Injury Center. As part of her vetting process, she confirms medical facts using national and international medical publications and media outlets.

Despite the fact the website content is created and reviewed by a medical expert, none of the content on this website is intended to be a substitute for legal or professional medical advice.

Key Contributors
Patricia Shelton, MD, is the leading examiner of the content published across this website.

Patricia earned her Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree at the University of Washington. Her background is in Neuroscience and Medicine. She is certified to teach yoga to new mothers, pregnant women, and kids and train yoga instructors. Dr. Shelton has investigated birth injuries from both the medical and personal sides and is widely recognized as a compassionate, thought-provoking writer and thought leader in the wellness space.

Before joining Birth Injury Center, Dr. Shelton published her first book, The Yoga Doctor. The book dives into the human body’s mysteries and encourages people to develop a pain-free yoga practice as part of a healthy life.