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The child was born healthy because the woman with spina bifida took folic acid before pregnancy. WASHINGTON â About 8 million children worldwide are born every year with serious birth defects, many of them dying before age 5 in a toll largely hidden from view, the March of Dimes says.
According to the March of Dimes, neural tube defects happen in about 3,000 pregnancies each year in the United States. About 1,500 babies are born in the U.S. with spina bifida, the most common NTD, according to the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.