Seasons Greetings! I hope everyone is doing well. I was pleased to find SMILES! Wow, what a great thing this is when often we are isolated from others who are going through the same thing. Just working with our public health nurse I've found that I've researched this more than she know already!!!
We are proud parents of a little boy born Nov 1st, 2006, Graeme John, 8 lbs 11 oz 21" long. It was a traumatic delivery for him, he was face up and the suction was used which left him with a nasty bruise on his head, the to add insult to injury he was also meconium, so suctioned right away and whisked off to NICU, the meconium gave him a little pneumo-thorax which cleared with oxygen only in less than 2 days but the suction bruise hurt him and he was having trouble eating, so gradually by mouth and by IV they got him up to full feeds by the time he was 5 days old (2 oz) and we got to go home! During this time his soft cleft palate was found, we were told within an hour of his birth and it was a total surprise to us. Text book pregnancy, great ultrasounds, totally unexpected. After it sunk it we never looked back that this would be a "problem" , it sure does make you find your strength though when some family members were a little more freaked/concerned. Graeme is doing awesome! He's feeding well on expressed breast milk (we're using the Mead Johnson bottles with NUK nipples, not crazy about this system but it works) Graeme is now 11 lbs 8 oz 23 1/4" at 7 weeks and he's rolling over like crazy! We went to the Cleft Clinic in Saskatoon Saskatchewan at the Royal University Hospital where he was born on Dec 20th and were seen by everyone (plastics / speech / genetics/ pediatrics ) we had previously seen the plastic surgeon at 2 weeks of age and were advised that Graeme's repair will be at 6 months. I'm happy for that.
Anyways, have a great holiday, I've learned a lot from you all already just reading on the boards. Take Care
Holly, John and Graeme
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