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 ...

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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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. No one expected Rachel Namoa would choose to give birth to her daughter. At her 12-week scan in 2013, Mrs Namoa and her husband William ...

Anencephaly, sometimes referred to as 'open skull', is a rare birth defect. It causes parts of a foetus' brain, scalp and skull to not form completely. The defect occurs during the third and fourth ...