What is prenatal diagnosis?
Everybody wants a healthy baby, but 2-3% of all children are born with a birth defect. Prenatal diagnosis is the identification of birth defects prior to delivery. Since the vast majority of babies are normal, we can give most people reassuring information.
What kinds of birth defects are there?
There are three categories:
* The prenatal diagnostic section of the web site was written by Dr. Allan Nadel, Carrie Haverty and Jennifer Kaufman. None of the material in this site is under copyright protection and we encourage others to reproduce these documents for their own use.
