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I had never heard about those three little letters CMV until it was too late. My baby passed away after just four months in the neonatal intensive care unit.
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OXFORD “Why didn’t anyone tell me?” is the most common response from mothers when they find out their child is infected with congenital CMV, congenital cytomegalovirus or cCMV, the leading viral cause of birth defects and developmental disabilities in children, and even of death.
Vanessa Colleran, Oxford mother and a special education teacher, was one of those women who were not aware of such a virus that could have dangerous effects on an unborn baby. Not until she was 26-weeks pregnant with her son, Logan, did she learn that there was something horribly wrong with her baby.
A week later, Logan was born, only weighing 1.2 pounds. He tested positive for congenital CMV when he was five days old.