{"id":3330,"date":"2020-05-05T13:58:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T13:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/?page_id=3330"},"modified":"2020-05-05T14:06:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T14:06:50","slug":"causes-of-spina-bifida","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/causes-of-spina-bifida\/","title":{"rendered":"Causes of Spina Bifida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cause of spina bifida is unknown, but a number of factors can increase the risk of a baby developing the condition.<\/p>\n<p>These include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>low folic acid intake during pregnancy<\/li>\n<li>having a family history of spina bifida<\/li>\n<li>medicines \u2013 taking certain medicines such as valproic acid (used to prevent seizures) during pregnancy has been linked to an increased risk of having a baby with spina bifida<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/spina-bifida\/causes\/\">causes of spina bifida<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cause of spina bifida is unknown, but a number of factors can increase the risk of a baby developing the condition. These include: low folic acid intake during pregnancy having a family history of spina bifida medicines \u2013 taking certain medicines such as valproic acid (used to prevent seizures) during pregnancy has been linked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/causes-of-spina-bifida\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Causes of Spina Bifida<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4400,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3330","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3348,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3330\/revisions\/3348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/st\/balfronhssupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}