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Post op Day 9

9 days post op!! We have almost made it to magic day number 10 when Landon can have his bottle back and his paci and his hands!!! This day he has been the gumpiest that he has been since he was born I think  he knows how close to getting life back to normal it is!! I was so tempted to give him his bottle but his lip is healing so well that I didn't want to chance it by giving him his bottle! 

My silly boy!!

His lip looks so good!!! I can't even believe it!

Post op Day 10

WE MADE IT!!!!! We made it to day 10 and we didn't cheat!!!! Landon took his bottle like we hadn't fed him in a week!!! We did feed him, just not with his bottle and that is what he really wanted!!! 

He is just so happy for life to be back to his normal!!

He loves sleeping on his tummy on my chest! And now he can again!!!

First Day back at work and Landon's first day of day care

So I went back to work. I hated having to leave him but all in all I had a good first day back at work with 2 patients the whole day (which my nurse friends know that is a good day!). When I went to say goodbye to Landon in the morning I bent over his crib and told him that I loved him and I was going to miss him but he was going to have a good day at daycare and I gave him a kiss and I looked at him and he was just smiling very big! So I took that a sign that I was going to have a good day also and I did. Brandon took him to day care and his Aunt TayTay was there to check on him all day and pick him up for me!

Brandon was so awesome to bring Landon by my work on his way (and by on his way I mean completely on the other side of town) to daycare.

Things that have happened since I went back to work 3 weeks ago lol:





My uncle Allen and cousin Jace came to visit Landon (ok the whole family but... you know).

Landon just loves Jacers!!

My Aunt Latonya and Uncle Rob came to see us also!

We went to cleft clinic last Friday. Cleft clinic is where we go to a doctors office and wait in a room and several different people come to see us. We saw a speech pathologist, the hearing people, a dentist/orthodonist, and Dr. Demke who is our plastic surgeon and ENT. The speech pathologist said that Landon was sucking on his bottle very well and eating just the right amount and he was talking and making all the right noises!! Then Landon got a hearing screeen and he PASSED!! WooHoo!! Then the dentist/orthodontist came in (this is who we really wanted to see). Landon has a notch on his gum on his left side where his cleft is so we had been wondering what that was all about. The dentist said that it was really not a big deal at all, it might have a crooked baby tooth there and the adult tooth might be straight or the adult tooth might be crooked also or they both might be straight but nothing that having braces as he gets older won't fix. Then we saw Dr. Demke and he said that Landon's lip was looking good and he didn't have to wear the steristip any more!!!! YAY!!!! So we had a great report!!!!

Landon had a great time at cleft clinic! He just smiled and played and laughed the whole time!!

Landon is trying to roll over for reals now and he is sitting up in his bopy and we are working on him sitting up on his own!!! He just talks and babbles to us and it is the best sound in the world!! He loves smiling too!!

Also I am so excited!!! I am going to be Matron of Honor at Cammy and Matt's wedding!!!!!! I am so freaking excited!!!!!! And Landon is excited too!!!

i got a little behind...

So far this week Landon has turned 9 weeks old, got his stitches out and rolled over!!! I also missed days 6,7,and 8 post op so here we go...

Tuesdasy- Post op day 6

This is how Landon has been having to eat! It has been very trying for both him and us to figure out how to eat with this bottle but we are getting and about the time we get it down he will be able to have his bottle back!

Wednesday- Post op day7 and stitches out

Landon got his stitches out this day! Dr. Demke took him back to O.R. so that way Landon didn't have to feel it or remember it! He did great, he was back in the O.R. all of 20 minutes! And he was in recovery about 5 minutes, and the nurse he had gave him a bottle!!!! I was so freaking mad I could have hit him!!! But Landon feels much much better with his stitches out!


This is Landon when he got back to his day surgery room and got to eat some breakfast!!



Landon loves laying on his tummy on my chest and he can finally do it again now that his stitches are out!

Thursday- Post op day 8

Even though he has been a crabby pants today he still felt like watch his movie and laughing at it! Too bad he wouldn't watch the whole thing... oh well 5 minutes of happy and laughing is ok!! Hopefully he will be back to himself in the next couple of days.

Landon's steristrip came off this afternoon! His lip looks so amazing! You can't tell how good it looks in this picture but in person it is amazing!! I love my little man more than words can describe and he is beautiful with or with out his cleft lip. I know that God knows what he is doing and he knew what he was doing when he gave me this special boy, he is perfect!!

9 weeks old, day 5 post op, and goodbye steri-strip

Well last night the "mustache" (aka steri-strip) fell off! I was really nervous to see what Landon's lip looked like. BUT... we have an amazing surgeon and he did a great job and it looks GREAT! I think my little man is super handsome!! I think Landon was handsome before and now he is still very handsome! We go back to the hospital to have his stitches removed on Wednesday. Today is day 5 post op, and Landon is starting to get back to himself. He is starting to smile some again, and if he could have a bottle or a paci or his hands he would be the happiest baby in the world.

Right after Landon's steri-strip fell off last night! Very handsome!

Day 5 Post op

 Landon is 9 weeks old today!! It is crazy how time flies by!! I'm pretty sure that if Landon didn't have to wear his arms boards he would be rolling over, but he is sitting up in his bumbo pretty good now! And now he is sleeping at least 8 hours a night!! And he is growing like a weed, he is 13 pounds now and 22 inches (we measured and weighed Wednesday before surgery).

Close up of day 5

This is the bottle Landon has to use to eat so he can't suck and we squeeze his formula in to his mouth. He hates it!

I wish I had some funny story from yesterday but I don't... maybe tomorrow!

Cleft Lip Repair Surgery

On May 23 Landon had his cleft lip repaired. I fell in love with his lip and his cute little smile so much that I was very sad when he went to have it fixed. I cried (I cry a lot lol) when they took him back to surgery. He was in surgery for 3 hours!!!! And we spent the night in the hospital. It was so hard to give Landon to the surgery nurse to go back to surgery. Thankfully I had Brandon, my mom and dad, and Brandon's mom there to help us through this hard time and long 3 hours. When he got out of surgery they let me go back to the recovery room and hold him! When we got to the pedi floor we got a great nurse and Landon was just so out of it he just slept and slept and slept. When he decided he wanted to wake up some we tried to feed him but we couldn't give him his bottle because the sucking motion can cause more scarring and cause it to look puffy. So we tried to feed him with syringes and it was a disaster so the speech pathologist came to help us and we could get him to eat some with the syringes. But when we got home we couldn't get him to eat from the syringes and it was very stressful. Finally we got him to eat from the crazy looking bottle, thank God! We are now on the road to recovery! Less than a week left until we can start using the bottle and pacifiers again and we get to take off the crazy arm boards (I hate them!!!).

Before surgery! I am going to miss his cleft lip!

In the recovery room!

In the room after surgery! 

Me and Landon after surgery!

Brandon and Landon after surgery!

At home!

post op day 1

post op day 2

post op day 2... again

post op day 3

post op day 3... again

post op day 4

Weeks 0-8

Right after Landon was born. 

One day old!

Landon was very yellow (jaundiced) so he had to be on a bililight for a few days!

1 Week old! 

2 Weeks old! Its amazing how fast he is growing!! His umbilical cord fell off! 

3 Weeks old!! 

4 Weeks old!! He is smiling now!!

5 Weeks old!! Landon went on his first road trip! We went to Dallas.  We went to the Dallas World aquarium and Landon slept most of the time! And we went shopping and Landon did NOT like shopping. 

6 weeks old! Landon started sleeping longer in the night about 6 hours!!!  WooHoo!!

7 Weeks old!! Landon is now sleeping 8 hours at night!!! YAY for a whole night of sleep!!!!

8 Weeks Old!!! Landon will have surgery the Wednesday of this week!! He is big enough that we can do it early that way it is done by the time I go back to work!