Drinking alcoholic beverages is the leading cause of mental and physical birth defects, exceeding both spina bifida and Down Syndrome. Alcohol causes more severe abnormalities in a developing baby ...
According to the CDC, a baby is born with a major birth defect every 4.5 minutes in the U.S. North Dakota Health and Human ...
Practitioners who treat mothers and babies before and after birth are uniting to spread the word about birth defects. The Mothers and Babies Perinatal Network held a news conference with ...
Parenting a kid with birth defects is not only emotionally draining but also poses unique challenges that you probably didn’t prepare for when you were trying for pregnancy. Of course, you love your ...
Up to 53 million American women of childbearing age have at least one risk factor that increases the odds of severe birth defects. A CDC study including survey responses from more than 5,300 women as ...