Blog: Anapol Weiss

Rare Chromosome Disorders And Birth Injury: Understanding The Difference And Your Legal Rights

Jun 25, 2026

When your child receives a diagnosis after a difficult pregnancy, labor, or delivery, you may feel overwhelmed by medical terms, unanswered questions, and uncertainty about what happened. Rare chromosome disorders and birth injury can sometimes appear connected because both may affect a baby’s development, movement, feeding, breathing, or long-term health. However, they are not the same thing. A rare chromosome disorder usually begins before birth because of missing, extra, or changed chromosome material. A birth injury,...

Dads, It’s Okay To Grieve: Coping After Your Baby’s Birth Injury

Jun 18, 2026

When your baby suffers a birth injury, everyone may ask how the baby is doing. Many people may ask how the mother is healing. However, far fewer people may ask how you are holding up as a father. Coping after your baby’s birth injury can feel confusing, lonely, and heavy, especially when you feel pressure to stay strong for everyone else. You may feel fear, anger, guilt, sadness, numbness, or all of these emotions in the...

What Is Congenital CMV And Could It Have Been Prevented?

Jun 11, 2026

When your baby receives a diagnosis you have never heard of before, every answer can lead to another question. You may wonder how it happened, whether signs were missed during pregnancy, and whether anything could have reduced the risk. For many families, congenital CMV becomes part of that painful search for answers. Congenital CMV, also called congenital cytomegalovirus, happens when a baby contracts CMV before birth. CMV is common, but when it passes from a pregnant...

Periventricular Leukomalacia: The Brain Injury Parents Of Premature Babies Need To Know About

Jun 4, 2026

When your baby arrives early, every monitor beep, every doctor update, and every NICU conversation can feel overwhelming. Then, if you hear the words periventricular leukomalacia, or PVL, you may feel even more frightened because this condition involves an injury to your baby’s developing brain. PVL most often affects premature and low birthweight infants, and it damages the white matter near the brain’s ventricles, which helps carry messages between different parts of the brain and...