Mom Shares Her Love For Baby With Cleft Palate And No Eyes In Heart-Wrenching Video
May 11 2012, Published 5:30 a.m. ET
By Debbie Emery - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter
Even being born with a rare form of cleft palate that left him with no eyes can’t stop bouncing baby Christian Buchanan from smiling.
The happy child has become a YouTube sensation since his mother, Lacey, of Woodbury, Tennessee, posted a video of her blind bundle of joy to prove how he has overcome cruel bullies with his laughter.
During the seven-minute film, Lacey, 25, tells her heart-wrenching story by holding photos and signs up to the camera while keeping her one-year-old son’s face out of shot.
A week after Buchanan and her husband, Chris, discovered they were pregnant, the devout Christians were told their unborn child had developmental problems and there was an 85 per cent chance of her miscarrying.
While he defied the odds, Christian’s Tessier cleft lip and palate were so severe that he couldn’t close his mouth and his eyes just weren’t there, reveals his mom in her hand written notes. He had his first surgery at just four-days-old, and spent the next week in the intensive care unit at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital.
Despite her faith, Lacey admitted “things were hard,” and said they struggled with cruel people