Oscar is scheduled for his first cleft surgery on Friday 28 January. We had a pre-admission appointment on Tuesday last week and we're all set to go for surgery this Friday! We go in on Thursday afternoon and he'll have surgery sometime on Friday.
They will be working to repair the hard palate (front of the mouth), his lip, and making his nose symmetrical. We're likely to be discharged on Saturday or Sunday. Basically once he's eating and having wet nappies they send you home.
He will have to wear arm splints for three weeks which will prevent him from being able to get his hands in his mouth while the area heals, to make sure he doesn't undo the surgeon's beautiful work. This will be an interesting time as pretty much everything gets put in his mouth these days, but they tell us that they get used to them quickly....
Then he'll have his soft palate repair sometime around 10 - 12 months of age (he was 7 months old yesterday).
We're excited and nervous now that the time has finally arrived, counting down, again. But Osacr doesn't seem worried about it all!
So we will probably be posting a bit more often and trying to keep you all up to date.
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