pregnant Yellow vests star Samantha Hanratty She is preparing to give birth to her first child, a boy Cleft lip surgery Shortly after his birth.
“My baby will be born with a cleft lip. “We're not 100 percent sure, and we probably won't know 100 percent until he's born, whether he has a cleft lip.” Tik Tok Video for the child's menu. “It reaches the length of the nose.”
Hanratty and her husband Christian DeAndaannounced in August that They are expecting a baby. The couple later discovered that the fetus had a cleft lip. According to the Mayo Clinic, cleft lip occurs when the upper lip is not fully formed before birth.
Hanratty and Dianda's son will need to undergo a series of procedures to correct the birth defect.
“At three weeks old, he will have his first surgery, which will be closed,” Hanratty told Babylist. “The only thing we were really keeping in mind was our language around it. There's nothing that's fixed, there's nothing bad about it. It's open now and he's going to have a really big smile and we're going to close it and the smile is going to be a little bit smaller.”
Hanratty also acknowledged the potential “difficulties” that would arise from her child's cleft lip and resulting surgery.
“I probably am She will not be able to breastfeedShe explained. “We'll have special bottles for it, and after that, there's a lot of surgeries coming up depending on how severe it is where it is in the palate, if it's in the palate.”
Hanratty also noted that “there are definitely moments where (she) definitely feels” sad, but overall she is “very happy to be his mother.”
The actress added that she felt her son kicking at that moment, which he often does whenever she mentions his cleavage.
“One time, my husband and I were crying about it in bed, and he went to lie on my stomach and kicked my husband really hard,” Hanratty recalls. “(Christian) was like, ‘All right, dude. It's okay, I understand. You will be fine. So it tells us there is nothing to worry about.
Hanratty was first confirmed in September Tik Tok Video that her son will be born with a cleft lip.
“At first the news was obviously shocking because it doesn't run in my family, it doesn't run in my husband's family,” Hanratty said at the time. “The biggest thing we all want is we want our kids to be happy and we want our kids to be healthy. … I think my husband and I are at peace with the fact that we know he's going to be OK.