These 14 People Have Important Advice to Offer New Parents of Children With Spina Bifida

As a new parent, being told your child has a birth defect can be a terrifying thing. Advice and support from others who have been there is often times instrumental in overcoming the initial fear and knowing that it will be alright in the end.

With this in mind, and in order to celebrate Spina Bifida Awareness Month, we at The Mighty decided to ask people whose lives have been affected by the condition what advice they had to offer parents of children who have just been diagnosed.

These were their answers:

 

 

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