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Trendy midwifery start-up Oula, backed by Chelsea Clinton, has been hit with a lawsuit alleging that the clinic left a baby with permanent brain damage.
The baby's parents, who have not been identified, claim that Oula's midwives were negligent and 'reckless' during the delivery, which resulted in the infant being born with brain damage.
The couple from Brooklyn, New York City, alleges that the midwives failed to get obstetricians in time to deliver the baby, as reported by the New York Post.
When the C-section was delayed, the infant went into 'fetal distress' and suffered hypoxic brain damage, according to the lawsuit filed in Brooklyn State Supreme Court.
The business, launched by Harvard graduate Adrianne Nickerson and New York University graduate Elaine Purcell in 2019, has not yet filed a response to the lawsuit.
Trendy midwifery start-up Oula, backed by Chelsea Clinton, has been hit with a lawsuit alleging that the clinic left a baby with permanent brain damage. Pictured: Oula founders Adrianne Nickerson (left) and Elaine Purcell (middle)
The couple from Brooklyn, New York City, alleges that the midwives failed to get obstetricians in time to deliver the baby. Pictured: Oula's Manhattan clinic
With the initial funding from Clinton's Metrodora Ventures LLC, Oula was able to open two clinics in NYC. Pictured: Chelsea Clinton at Oula's event in March, 2023
Oula has opened two clinics, one located in Brooklyn Heights and the other in Manhattan Soho, surrounded by upscale restaurants and designer brands.
The company offers 'full-service pregnancy care from prenatal, to delivery, to postnatal support,' according to its website.
A source who did not want to be identified said Mount Sinai West, where the brain damaged baby was born last year, assigned a dedicated obstetrician to Oula's patients after the incident.
Until recently, Oula did not have a dedicated obstetrician at the hospital, despite having delivered more than 1,500 babies since its opening in 2019, the source said.
'Oula is all about the money. It's really an egregious and dangerous line they're walking.' a source who did not want to be identified told the outlet
The former first daughter is one
