02609cam a2200301 4500 702854710 TxAuBib 20230510120000.0 221116s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022025633 9780385548595 HRD 28.00 0385548591 HRD 28.00 TxAuBib Nix, Megan, author. Remedies for sorrow [BOOK] : an extraordinary child, a secret kept from pregnant women, and a mother's pursuit of the truth / Megan Nix. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, 2023. 336 pages ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. "An inspiring memoir and work of fierce advocacy by a mother whose child is born deaf, leading her to investigate and expose a preventable virus that causes more childhood disabilities than any other--but is kept quiet by the medical community. One viruscauses more birth defects and disabilities in children than any other infectious disease, yet 93% of Americans don't know it exists. In 2015, after an outwardly uneventful pregnancy, Megan Nix's second daughter, Anna, was born terribly small and failed her newborn hearing test. Megan and her husband learned that Anna is completely deaf and could have lifelong delays due to an infection in the womb with cytomegalovirus, or CMV, a disease Megan unknowingly contracted from her toddler during pregnancy. Whiledoctors warn pregnant women against the risks of saunas, sushi, and unpasteurized cheese, they don't mention 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. Anna's diagnosis led Megan to years of in-depth research, uncovering a shocking fact: obstetricians in the United States are advised not to mention CMV to women during their pregnancies. Unfolding across the dramatic landscape of Sitka, Alaska, where Megan's husband makes his living as a salmon fisherman, Remedies for Sorrow is lyrically written and a searing critique of the paternalistic practice of "benevolent deception" in medicine"-- Provided by publisher. 20230510. Nix, Megan. Virus diseases in pregnancy United States. Cytomegalovirus infections United States. Prenatal diagnosis United States. Abnormalities, Human Etiology. Parents of children with disabilities United States Biography.