When Jasper Hayes was born in April 2007 by emergency Cesarean, a midwife popped into the ward to tell his mum Emma ‘Your son’s OK but he’s missing an ear’. Often paired with other conditions, microtia is a malformation of the external part of the ear or pinna. Emma from Nottingham tells us her story.
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