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