Remedies for Sorrow: An Extraordinary Child,.

This "compulsively readable memoir.brings to light an issue that has been too long ignored.An immensely important book" (Emily Oster, New York Tim es bestselling author of Expecting Better and Cribsheet). A story of a mother's fierce love for her exceptional child and her courage ous journey to break the silence about a hidden risk to pregnant women: "bo th a beautiful family story and an urgent call to action. [A] moving, pot entially life-altering book" (Robert Kolker, author of #1 New York Times be stseller Hidden Valley Road). After a seemingly uneventful pregnancy, Megan Nix's second daughter, Anna, was born very small and profoundly deaf. Megan and her husband, Luke, learn ed that Anna could have lifelong delays due to an infection from a virus th ey had never heard of: cytomegalovirus, or CMV, which Megan had unwittingly contracted from her toddler during pregnancy. Megan was electrified by this knowledge. She had been warned, while pregnant, about the risks of saunas, sushi, and unpasteurized cheese, a lack of folic acid, and an excess of kitty litter. She knew to fear a slew of genetic syndromes she could do little to prevent. But she had not been told that CMV is contagious in the saliva of one out of three toddlers, spread through a kiss, a shared cup, a bite of unfinished toast. She had not been told that the stakes were high, that congenital CMV causes more birth defects and childhood disabilities--including blindness, deafness, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and autism--than any infectious disease. Or that some of these disabilities are evident at birth, but others appear suddenly at age two or three and are nev.

Product Info

ISBN: 0385548591

ISBN-13: 9780385548595

Publisher: Doubleday Books

Year: 2023

Type: New

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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