For years, speaking Spanish at home in the United States has been linked to a greater risk of spina bifida and related birth defects.
Not that speaking Spanish at home causes birth defects. The reason that women who speak Spanish at home have been twice as likely to have a baby with spina bifida as white women who don’t speak it has to do with diet, not language, according to a 2014 report by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
