A Family’s Journey: Cleft Lip and Palate Surgery at Seattle Children’s Hospital

November 13, 2012

http://pulse.seattlechildrens.org/a-familys-journey-cleft-lip-and-palate-surgery-at-seattle-childrens-hospital/

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In October 2010, Heather Landis received a phone call no expectant mother ever wants to receive. At five months pregnant with their second child, the doctor told Heather and her husband Dale that the baby girl they were expecting would be born with a cleft lip and palate, birth defects that occur early in pregnancy.

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