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 ...

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 ...

Joe and Crystal Ossello braced themselves for perhaps only five minutes to meet their daughter, Harlow. They got 15½ hours together. Harlow had a neural tube defect called anencephaly, which means ...

When Stephanie Schoonover and her husband first got the gutwrenching news at their 12-week ultrasound that their baby daughter Grace would be born with anencephaly, a deadly birth defect when babies ...

A Kentucky mother of three was forced to travel hundreds of miles to Illinois to receive an abortion after her fetus was diagnosed with anencephaly, a serious birth defect where the skull doesn’t ...