Cerebral palsy may develop in the fetal period, as a result of damage incurred during childbirth or shortly thereafter. Not in every case, physicians are able to determine the cause of the disease.
The common feature of many cases of the disease is more likely the child's brain hypoxia.
Known causes include cerebral paralysis certainly the fetus in the uterus infections virus rubella and cytomegalovirus. The reason for the presence of the disease is sometimes not properly functioning placenta, which supplies the fetus is not the appropriate amounts of oxygen. Also, a long and difficult birth, during which the child is not receiving enough oxygen and perinatal infections, such as meningitis or encephalitis are among the potential causes of cerebral paralysis.