I’m terrified my son will be bullied for the same reason I was

It had barely crossed my mind that my son could be born with a similar condition (Picture: Stacey Hussell)

‘I think you’re right,’ said the sonographer, carefully. ‘I think there is a cleft.’

I was pregnant with my son, Dylan, and my husband and I were at our 20-week scan in October 2021.

While I was born with a unilateral cleft lip and palate – a gap in the upper lip, base of the nose, gum and palate on one side of my mouth – it had barely crossed my mind that my son could be born with a similar condition.

It had been a huge worry when I was pregnant with my daughter four years earlier; but she was absolutely fine, so I had assumed my son would be too.

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