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Article: Children's Eases Brittany's Path
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- The Washington Post
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- December 5, 1994
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How does a serious birth defect affect a newborn? A Carroll
County family recently faced this difficult question. But they are
on the way to answering it with the help of doctors at Children's
Hospital. My associate, Booth Moore, has the story:
As if it were not enough for Bill and Christine Flanagan to
cope with the birth of identical twin girls, they found out right
after the May 18, 1992, delivery that one daughter would have very
special needs.
Caitlin Flanagan is a normal, healthy child. Her twin,
Brittany, however, was born with a facial disfigurement called a
bilateral cleft lip and palate.
"Cleft" means divided or split. Brittany was born with the
condition because parts of ...