Anencephaly is a type of neural tube defect. During pregnancy, your baby's brain and spine start to form as a flat disk of cells. This flat disk rolls into a tube-like structure called the neural tube ...

Erin and William Petersen almost didn’t get the ultrasound. You don’t really need it, the doctor told them, but come on in if you like and have a look at your baby. They watched excitedly as the baby, ...

The woman was told her unborn baby had a condition known as anencephaly, which affects the development of the brain and skull ...

Emersyn Rogers was diagnosed with anencephaly when mom was 20 weeks pregnant. — -- A couple carrying their terminally ill child to term is hoping to donate her organs and help keep other parents ...

A recent viral tweet on X (formerly known as Twitter) by a Nigerian mother shared a heartbreaking story. She had missed her antenatal check-ups because she was hustling for money, and only went for a ...

Sally Garcia still doesn’t know what went wrong with her baby. When the tiny girl was born on May 25, 2012, she weighed 3 pounds, 6 ounces, measured 19 inches long — and was missing most of her brain ...

At a routine ultrasound 12 weeks into her first pregnancy, Stephanie Schoonover and her husband, Andy, were devastated to learn their baby had anencephaly, a fatal birth defect that causes a baby to ...

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FORSYTH, Ill (WAND) May is Anencephaly Awareness Month. Anencephaly is a rare disease in which a baby does not fully develop their skull before birth. Virtually all babies die before birth or within ...

Erin and William Petersen almost didn’t get the ultrasound. You don’t really need it, the doctor told them, but come on in if you like and have a look at your baby. They watched excitedly as the baby, ...