BARA! His surname is Muhammad Azalini Bara Iftikhar, so long, isn’t? But It’s meanful. He is my youngest son, so cute.. his eyes and curved upward eyelashes make anyone amazed.. and he’s got bright skin and chubby which makes anyone pinches him. When i looked at him, i couldn’t imagine his face when he was born..almost two years ago... if you read my article about “why I hate about ciprofloxacin” there’s a closed relationship.When i gave a birth, it was smooth. My husband whispered me, “your boy is so cute, but there’s sumthing happen in his lips.” I couldn’t say anything.. speechless.. I might be shock.. or languid.. dunno.. I was still lying on operated table.. I didn’t feel pain.. just thinking.. what can I do? Then my husband whispered me again, “it’s ok, he can undergo cheiloraphy..” I knew that a cleft lip could be successfully treated with surgery soon after birth.Ok, I believed in you, hunee..
Yup, my son got “only” Cleft lip (cheiloschisis), not cleft palate (palatoschisis), It was a type of clefting congenital deformity caused by abnormal facial development during gestation. Cleft lips or palates occured in somewhere between one in 600-800 births. Cleft lip which happened to my son, formed in the top of the lip, a small gap or an indentation in the lip (partial or incomplete cleft).
According to Wikipedia, during the first six to eight weeks of pregnancy, the shape of the embryo's head is formed. If the tissues fail to meet, a gap appears where the tissues should have joined (fused). The upper lip is formed earlier than the palate. This process is very vulnerable to multiple toxic substances, environmental pollutants, and nutritional imbalance. The cause of cleft lip and cleft palate formation can be genetic in nature. Some environmental factors that have been studied include: seasonal causes (such as pesticide exposure); maternal diet and vitamin intake; retinoids- which are members of the vitamin A family; anticonvulsant drugs; alcohol; cigarette use; nitrate compounds; organic solvents; parental exposure to lead; and illegal drugs (cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin, etc). Research continues to investigate the extent to which folic acid can reduce the incidence of clefting. When my pregnancy was 4 weeks, I got mumps, and I took many drugs. Mumps (viral) might cause cleft lip to my son. OK, it was from medical side.. or it happened to me because I didn’t close to God? It could be..:(
Then, I was back to my room, in Darmo Hospital.. a nurse took my boy, I carried him, stared at him, and suddenly my tear dropped.. confused.. my husband said, “It usually happens, take it easy.. he can undergo cheiloraphy”.. ok, I knew you’ve just made me comfort.. but I believed in you, again.. and again.. and it’s a must..
One difficulty, i couldn’t nurse him because of his harelip:( but I must try! If we had a will, we could do it! And thanx god, I did.
Days by days.. the next 3 months.. Bara had undergone surgery by Prof.Djohansyah and circumcision all at once.. alhamdulillah it worked.. first, i couldn’t stand on his crying.. but i had to be a tough woman! Life must go on! Alhamdulillah, his wound healing was good.. thanx for Allah, thanx for my husband and my family who support me, and of course prof Djohansyah..