84 babies were born in 2019 with an open back, cleft lip or cleft palate. Conditions that are largely preventable if the mother takes folic acid. Only sometimes this happens too late, when the nervous system of the fetus has already been formed. “That is why more attention needs to be paid to it. Talk to your doctor before trying to get pregnant. ”
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Spina bifida, or spina bifida popularly, another 26 children were born with it. For a cleft lip and palate, the number is 58. That figure is much too high, says Dr. Monika Laubach …
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