Pregnant Samantha Hanratty Reveals Baby Boy Will Be Born with Cleft Lip

Samantha Hanratty is sharing an update on her pregnancy.

If you didn’t know, the 29-year-old Yellowjackets actress announced last month that she and husband Christian DeAnda are expecting their first child, a baby boy.

In a video shared on TikTok on Wednesday (Sept. 25), Samantha revealed that her son will be born with a cleft lip.

Keep reading to find out more…“I’ve been doing some updates on here and having a good time sharing these things with you and I thought I would share our latest update that our baby is going to have a cleft lip and a possible cleft palate,” Samantha shared.

“And at first the news was obviously shocking because it doesn’t run in my family, it doesn’t run in my husband’s family,” she continued. “And the biggest thing that we all want is that we want our kids to be happy and we want our kids to be healthy.”

According to the Mayo Clinic, cleft lip and cleft palate are “openings or splits in the upper lip, the roof of the mouth (palate) or both. Cleft lip and cleft palate result when facial structures that are developing in an unborn baby don’t close completely.”

Samantha went on to admit that finding out that her baby will be going through several surgeries soon after he’s born was tough, but she’s thankful to have found great specialists to work with.

“It’s still scary to think that your precious little baby is going to be going under anesthesia and that there’s going to be difficulties,” she explained. “I am already preparing for the fact that I will not be able to nurse. I will be pumping and doing formula and it’s been emotional, but I think that both me and my husband are at peace with the fact that we know that he’s going to be okay.”

She added, “This was just a little bit of a different journey than what we had expected. I’m not going to lie and pretend that this has been the easiest of news, but I’m also, like I said, just incredibly grateful for how fortunate we are.”

“1 in 700 children are born with a cleft lip and/or palate and we’re praying that it’s just in the lip and not in palate, just because there’s more difficulties when it comes with closing things up and further surgeries,” Samantha went on. “We’re prepared for either way.”

Samantha concluded by saying that any time she gets a little sad or scared, her son “kicks me and reminds me that he’s fine and that he’s going to be okay.”

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