The Spencer & Caleb Link

I have been putting together Spencer and Skyler’s journals for the last few days. I started on Spencer’s today and I was writing about when our doctor told us about his tongue-tie issue. I decided to try and find a link on WebMD to explain what it means to be tongue-tied. So on WebMD it says that tongue-tie occurs more frequently “in babies with other congenital conditions that affect the mouth and face, such as X-linked cleft palate.” Up until today I had no idea there was a link between tongue-tie and clefts. In all of the research I’ve read on clefts it states that, although clefts tend to run in families, it is not hereditary. And I guess that’s sort of the case here. I’m sure even if I had read there was a connection between tongue-tie and clefts back when Spencer was a baby I still never would have imagined Caleb would be born with a cleft. But it’s interesting now in hindsight. Just thought I’d share.