My dearest friends,
I would like to tell you about the birth of my sixth child B”H. My home has been blessed and my son Yitschok Menashe was born.
The baby was born with an intricate medical condition…he has no upper lip. This makes it almost impossible for him to suck. The baby is in pain a lot and also hungry…he cries so much out of frustration, our heart goes out seeing him so.
As my job as a melamed in chaider, takes me out of the house for the biggest part of the day, the task of juggling the baby’s needs and giving the other children their needs (the oldest is 8) falls upon my wife. This job uses up all her mental and physical strength!
And now we have been informed by a well-known medical advisor, that B’ezras Hashem it is possible to operate on the baby. It would be a series of difficult operations and treatments that can be done in England.
The complete hospital stay and cost of these treatments is very expensive. This is in addition to the medical expenses we have here.
And so, I ask of you, to please assist me and my child in this difficult time of need with financial aid.
Surely the zchus of this mitzvah will bring upon you many years of peace and only good tidings.
Please help, the matter is urgent.
Moshe Dov HaCohen Rosenfeld and family
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4 Responses
It looks like a cleft lip, my child also had it, the best Dr. probably in the world for this is Dr. Ernest Kaplan in palo Alto CA its 17 years later and he looks no different from any of his peers
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pleas try to contact this yid with your information im sure he dosnt know about this doctor kaplan i think i read an article about him years ago
so please do your best you will a great zcus ,,you never know maybe you are the messenger to help this person
in this you will definitely have kasuva i v chasima tovs
There is also a phenomenal doctor in Boston, MA. Dr. John Mulliken he did surgery on my son. Also there is a special bottle for babies with this problem. It is called a Haberman feeder. If anyone can pass on this information to the parents of this child.
Not a YWN reader but a friend sent me this article. As a (frum) mom to a cleft baby, I find the tone of this article and the video distasteful.
B”H today cleft lip is not at all a long term medical condition (when isolated) and to present it in such dire terms and talk about “rare deformities”, “medical conditions” and “possibilities of operations” is doing disservice to the wonderful treatment available and the children who do have it who are leading fully functioning lives. These children are no different than their peers and everyone needs to know and internalise that (videos like this create stigma where none should be).
I understand (firsthand) how difficult it could be the first few months until the operation, and expensive! So please, do help whatever you can, but please frame it differently.
Yes we had to learn how to feed our son, no he did not go hungry, no he was not in pain. Yes he’s the biggest brocha of our lives and I hope Yitzchak Menashe grows up to give you lots of nachas.