Approximately 1,500 babies are born each year in the United States with spina bifida (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2011a). Spina bifida is a birth defect that occurs when the vertebrae do not form properly around the spinal cord. It is the most common defect of a group called neural tube defects. The “neural tube is the embryonic structure that eventually develops into the baby’s brain and spinal cord and the tissues that enclose them” (Mayo Clinic, 2011c). In a normal pregnancy, the neural tube forms by the 28th day after conception, which is often before a woman knows she is pregnant (March of Dimes, 2009).