how many other mums have babies with either a cleft lip or cleft palate or both?

Megan - posted on 12/20/2009 ( 2 moms have responded )

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My son was born with a unilateral(one side) cleft lip and a bilateral(both sides) cleft palate. He has had his first operation, his lip repair in july 2009 he was only 3 months old. his palate repair in meant to be in feb 2010 but still uncertain about the date. after this he may need another operation when he is 2 or 3 depending on how tings are going. he will need a bone graft when he is 10 to fill in his gum. and when he is 16 he decides if he wants anymore operations. i was just wondering if there was any other mums that have cleft children and how there surgury went or if they want to ask me a question about anything i would gladly answer any question that anybody has. so if anybody has a cleft baby please let me know so that either i know what is ahead or we can just help each other out. oh and by the way michael is my first baby so it has been extremely hard.

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Whitney - posted on 12/20/2009

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my nephew (my brother's son) was born with a cleft pallet and his surguries went really well....he's 3 now and looks like a little juaquine pheonix! He went (maybe still does) go to speech therapy because he couldnt pronounce his consonants very well....."daddy" was "aaa eee". Anyway, hang in there, doctors are very familiar with these surguries now and im sure yours is in good hands!

Ashleigh May - posted on 12/20/2009

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hi , i dont have a baby with cleft but i do have friends that do, i know a couple , dont worry yourself about the operations,he will be fine :) both babys i know thats had all operations were fit and well after and cant even hardly tell they had cleft! so dont worry, he is gorgeous :)