So when your wife was pregnant, you did expect to have some cleft, or did you think it was likely?
#Michael phew full#
Michael: I had a slight notch just out my gum I didn’t have the full palate. So did you have the cleft palate as well or just? Michael: Yeah I’ve had it, and my father’s had it, so I just assumed that it’d carry on within the family. in the back of my mind when I heard the child 90% probably born with cleft lip, maybe palate, don’t really know to be fair. But we didn’t, they didn’t tell us he had a cleft palate till he was born, did they? And we went through a 3D scan in the end, didn’t we? And that’s when we found out had a cleft lip. Millie: And sort of kept scanning me and scanning me, and sending me to specialist scans. And then they found out your history, didn’t they? Millie: We got, I went for my normal scan, didn’t I, because I found that I was pregnant quite late on. So when did you first learn that your son was going to be born with a cleft lip? Millie and Michael have made new friends through their involvement in cleft support groups and continue to support each other through the ongoing treatment for children born with cleft lip and palate. He is making good progress with making sounds and will also have the support of a speech therapist when he is about one year old. Their son is now beginning to speak, loves books and being read to. Millie and Michael said they missed their son’s smile as it was before the operation. The splints and the healing wound on his lip attracted the attention of members of the public in the street and many people asked them questions about his appearance. Following the operation their son’s arms were splinted so that he would not pick at the wound on his lip. They found this a daunting experience but they were prepared to put their trust in the health professionals and the operation went ahead successfully.
The couple attended a meeting with a group of health professionals including the surgeon, psychologist, speech and language therapist and a dentist that would be involved in their son’s care in the years to come.
Millie and Michaels’ son had his lip repair operation when he was 3 months old. Millie has found emotional and practical support through their son’s specialist cleft nurse and informal meetings with other mothers of cleft babies. Millie also experienced difficulties expressing milk to enable her feed her son with the specialist squeezy feeding bottles. When Millie and Michael’s son was born he was not able to breastfeed and this was a big disappointment especially for Millie. Michael and his father had not suffered many negative experiences from growing up with a cleft but Millie and Michael were concerned about the medical procedures and intervention that their son would have to go through. However Millie was more upset by the diagnosis and it took a long time for her to come to terms with it. As Michael and his father had both been born with clefts it was disappointing but not a huge shock for Michael. When their son was born it discovered that he also had a cleft palate. Millie and Michael first found out that their son would be born with a cleft lip following their 20 week scan. Michael was born with a cleft lip himself and his father was born with a cleft lip and palate. Millie and Michael are both White British and have a son of 7 months who was born with a unilateral cleft lip and palate.
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