It’s troubling– according to the March of Dimes each year in the US, more than 150,000 babies are born with some defect and almost 60 percent of birth defects causes are unknown. There are two essential types of childbirth defects: structural and functional/developmental.  Structural birth defects concern problems related to body part development, while functional birth [...]

According to statistics, about 6 percent of children in the whole world are born with different birth defects. Let’s try to understand birth defects causes and see if anything can be done to prevent them. Birth defects are the abnormalities with which a child can be born. Over 4,000 kinds of defects are known to [...]

Birth defect causes are a result of heredity, motherly illnesses and environmental influences. Approximately 70 percent of birth defects are not known. For example, deafness, color blindness and extra digits on the hands or feet are hereditary. These kind of defects may not appear in every generation, but the gene is usually passed on. If [...]

Primordial dwarfism is a disease affecting infants when developing in mother’s womb. Primordial dwarfism is a rare form of dwarfism that can be diagnosed even during pregnancy, if the fetus is unnaturally small. This condition is called intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR). Other forms of dwarfism are not easy to detect. Fetuses might be of normal [...]