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About 1,500 babies are born in the U.S. each year with spina bifida, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Ella was born was spina bifida and diagnosed in the womb when Rogers was 24 weeks pregnant. One week before the diagnosis, Rogers lost Ella's twin sister.

Spina bifida is a birth defect in which the spine fails to develop properly, which can lead to weakness or paralysis of the lower limbs, cognitive issues, and urinary and bowel dysfunction.

The Spina Bifida Association of Colorado is not a group that searches for a cure, but a group that helps to make the lives of families living with spina bifida a little bit easier to handle.