Megan Nix

Nov 27, 2023 | kevinmd.com | Megan Nix |Nathaniel Fleming |Ronald Halweil |Robert Pearl

When I was 36 weeks pregnant with my second child, Anna, my obstetrician noted that my fetus had a disproportionately small head, or microcephaly—a condition now commonly known because of its association with the Zika virus. “We’ll just have to wait and see,” he said, meaning we’ll look for answers if the baby is affected at birth. But when my daughter was born, there were no answers then either. Anna was silent when the midwife held her up. She was only five pounds.

Apr 16, 2023 | bostonglobe.com | Megan Nix

Unless you’ve heard of CMV, you will not Google CMV. I first hear the letters when my second daughter, Anna, is 10 days old — when she weighs only four pounds, is mostly silent, and hasn’t yet passed a hearing test — and our pediatrician suggests we test her for a “common but little-known virus” I may have contracted in the last nine months. He does not mention that CMV causes more birth defects and developmental delays than anything women are tested for during pregnancy.