New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Face- changing surgery MEL A CAN FINALLY SMILE

Feeling numb with the news that her one-day-old baby had been born with an incredibly rare condition – rendering her tiny face paralysed – new mum Mishla Trayes remembers the grief of thinking she would never get to see her baby ssmile.

Diagnosed with Moebius syndrome, daughter Mela was whisked off to the Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) while Mishla and her husband Matt, both 41, were told the neurological disorder affects one in four

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