Another causative factor may be trauma, a head injury following a car accident, bicycle accident, football or other high speed sports mishaps, a fall from a tree, or even an upper bunk especially if there is a door knob or hard table obstructing the fall and causing a focal blow to the head. A far more common traumatic factor, and far less easily identified injury may have occurred during the process of birth. The nine months of pregnancy is arranged anatomically and physiologically to provide the utmost protection to the developing baby within the mother's abdomen. The process of labor whereby the baby is delivered into this world is also designed to bring the baby into this world without injury. The period of pregnancy may be a healthy, happy, joyous experience until the expected date of delivery draws near.
Labor begins, or at least the contractions seem like labor.
Contractions continue, somewhat erratically for a few hours or days only to reveal themselves as false labor. On the other hand there may have been no false labor, and the real labor begins according to expectation. Then mother experiences severe back pain, which suggests that the baby has turned face forward instead of face backward. Progress is retarded because this position makes passage through the birth canal more difficult. This is but one of the possible traumatic events that can occur during the birth process and affect the delicate musculoskeletal mechanism of the baby.