
Card for parents of baby born with cleft craniofacial condition
For parents receiving the news that their baby will be born with a cleft or craniofacial condition, they are grieving the loss of not having a "perfect" baby, along with fears about the stress of multiple surgeries in their baby's first year. "It would have been amazing to get a card like this after our sonogram when we learned our baby would be born with a cleft," G. Biello said when sharing the words for this card. "The initial news was the hardest part." About the Card Contributor G. Biello shared the words for this card, from her own experience as a mother to a beautiful baby born with a cleft. Although she initially grieved not having a “perfect” baby, as soon as she held her baby for the first time she only saw how perfectly imperfectly beautiful he was. She explains, "That extra-wide smile will always have a place in your heart. Hold it close, wear it like a badge of honor, and know that it’s the beauty of imperfection that makes your baby perfectly themself." She sends love t