When the stars of A&E’s “Duck Dynasty” discovered at 31 weeks gestation that their youngest daughter would be born with a cleft lip and a possible cleft palate, they hardly knew where to turn.
Missy Robertson, whose husband Jase stars in the hit show alongside his brothers, father and uncle, was undergoing a 4-D ultrasound to see the features of her unborn daughter in summer 2003, when she noticed something was amiss.
“I noticed it, and when I asked the technician, I looked at her and realized she had already seen it and she said ‘I need to get the doctor,’” Missy told FoxNews.com. The doctor then confirmed that Missy’s baby had a cleft lip, and possibly a cleft palate.
“I had heard of it, but I knew nothing of the condition at all,” Missy, who lives in Louisiana, said.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 2,650 babies are born with a cleft palate in the U.S. each year, and approximately 4,440 babies are born with a cleft lip, with or without a cleft palate. A cleft palate occurs when the tissue that makes up the roof of the mouth does not join together completely during pregnancy, while a cleft lip occurs when the tissue that makes up the lip does not join completely before birth.
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