Carter Green was born May 24, 2010. Our sweet Carter was born with a double cleft lip and a double cleft palet. Fortunately, Tiffany and Rob knew in advance and already had a plan underway for his upcoming surgerys.
This is Tiffany and Carter just before going back to surgery on October 12th. He had been wearing a retainer and tape to pull his lips together to lighten the tention on the stitches for his new lip. Tiffany is all smiles but we were all very nervous.
Here is our little guy just after surgery. The first comment I made was how much he looked like his older brother Landen. It is amazing the difference it made. The stitches around the nose were cuts made to release some tissue so his nose would not be drawn down as the lip was repaired. He really does look very good, there was very little bruising.
Carter is doing fabulous now days. You can still see some of the scar but as you can see the healing is going really well. Also our little guy is growing up. His mother is not sure if she is ready for him to be mobile. However, as the picture shows he is not far off. He is so cute and such a sweet baby.
He is scheduled to have his next surgery in February. This surgery will repair his palet. Right now he is wearing a removable retainer held in with fixadent. Ya that stuff that old people use to hold their dentures in, funny. The retainer will prevent his palet from shifting before his surgery.
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