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 ...

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 ...

AIRWAY HEIGHTS, Wash – Crystal and Joseph Ossello have had challenges growing their family. They have a son, Tucker, who is almost four but wanted to grow their world even more. After four years of ...

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 ...

Little Marcela de Jesus Galante Ferrerira continues to surprise the world. She is now ten months old despite doctors’ predictions that she would die soon after being born. She suffers from anencephaly ...

All right, folks, I'm way overdue on checking back in with this. I first wrote about anencephaly more than a year ago, when the state Health Department issued a news release on the unusually high ...

Little Marcela de Jesus Galante Ferreira has broken all the records of survival. The anencephaly she suffers should have caused her death hours or days after birth, but to the amazement of many, she ...

The day before Mardi Gras, Brittany and Chris Vidrine got exciting news — Brittany was pregnant. They would be adding a third child to their family. But when she went in for a 16-week checkup, ...