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Pregnancy: Alcohol, cigarettes during pregnancy can cause cleft lips

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 A pregnant woman can cause birth defects on her unborn child through drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes and using certain drugs (Shutterstock)

Having a baby is a miraculous and a beautiful journey but any birth defects can kill the joy, cause worry and anxiety.

One birth defect is a cleft lip or palate or having a split on the upper lip or roof of the mouth and which in some communities come with stigma.

Nyang Tet, 15, from Kawangare in Nairobi has lived with a bilateral cleft lip all his life.

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