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Samantha Hanratty
Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for ELLEPregnant Yellow jackets a star Samantha Hanratty preparing to have her first child, a baby boy cleft lip surgery shortly after he was born.
“My baby is going to be born with a cleft lip. We’re not 100 percent sure, and we probably won’t know 100 percent until he’s born, if he has the palate,” Hanratty, 29, said in a Friday, Dec. 13, TikTok video for Babylist. “It goes all the way up to the nose.”
Hanratty and her husband, Christian DeAndaannounced in August that they are expecting a baby. The couple later found out that the fetus had a cleft lip. According to the Mayo Clinic, a cleft lip occurs when the upper lip is not fully formed before birth.
Hanratty and DeAnda’s son will need a series of procedures to correct the birth defect.
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“At three weeks old, he’ll have his first surgery, where they’re going to close that up,” Hanratty told Babylist. “One thing we’ve really been mindful of is our language around her. There is nothing that is fixed, there is nothing that is bad about it. It’s open right now and it’s going to have a really big smile and we’re going to close and it’s going to be a little less smile.”
Hanratty also acknowledged the potential “difficulties” that could arise from her baby’s cleft lip and subsequent surgery.
“I guess I am she will not be able to breastfeed,” she explained. “We’re going to get special bottles for him and, then, there’s a lot more surgeries to come depending on how serious it is where it’s in the palate, if it’s in the palate.”
Hanratty further noted that “there are definitely moments (she) definitely” feels sad, but overall she is “very happy to be his mother.”
Samantha Hanratty
Courtesy of Samantha Hanratty/InstagramThe actress added that she felt her son kick in at that moment, something she often does when she talks about her split.
“One time, my husband and I were crying about him in bed and (he) went to lie on my stomach, and my husband kicked so hard,” Hanratty recalled. “(Christian) was like, ‘Okay, dude. It’s okay, I get it.’ You’re going to be fine.’ So, it lets us know that there is nothing to worry about.”
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Hanratty first confirmed in September TikTok video that her son would 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 that we want our children to be happy and we want our children to be healthy. … I think I and my husband are at peace with the fact that we know he’s going to be OK.”
