Hi, I'm hoping to hear from other mum's who found out their baby had a cleft lip at an anatomy scan. I'm UK based.
My story is very difficult. My first son was tragically stillborn last September - a week before his due date. The cause was an undetected small placenta.
We fell pregnant with our rainbow baby 3 months later.
We recently found out at our anatomy scan that he has a cleft lip. Unilateral cleft on the right side and likely complete. The consultant said it's small (1mm at 21 weeks). He said the inside of the mouth looked good but I appreciate the palette can't be properly looked at until birth. The rest of the scan went well with no abnormalities noted. My screening at 12 weeks came back low risk. We have no one else in the family with a cleft.
Today he asked if I wanted other screening. Given my history, I just can't take the risk of amniocentesis. If something happened I would never forgive myself. Equally, I am driving myself insane thinking this baby could have an associated syndrome/be very unwell.
I just wanted to know if many people go for the amnio? I think if there were any issues with organs detected I would have went for it.