A WOMAN has told how she believed she’d failed as a mum when one of her twin boys was born with no eye socket, nostril or left ear.
Instead of it being the happiest day of her life, Charlie Beswick described the day her sons were born as the hardest.
The doting mother became “consumed with guilt” after doctors broke the news that one of her boys was born with a rare facial deformity.
Charlie, of North Staffordshire, recalled how she went into labour at 32 weeks before being forced to undergo an emergency caesarean.
She was informed one of the twins was breech and was rushed into surgery to deliver the tots.
But four hours later, her world came crashing down.
Doctors told her that while little Oliver was fine, his twin Harry – now both 17 – had been diagnosed with Goldenhar syndrome.
The complex condition, which is present at birth, typically stunts the development of the eye, ear and spine.
And it meant her boy was born with no left eye, eye socket, nostril nor left ear and a short underdeveloped jaw – alongside a damning diagnosis.
Medics warned the new-mum her baby may have brain damage and never be able to walk.
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