Our baby’s surgery
My wife and I were sitting at Children’s Hospital this morning with our family waiting on news about our baby’s surgery. He was born with a cleft lip and surgery was planned to repair it today. We received many recommendations for the surgeon that is performing the surgery. Some recommendations came as far away as people in Pensacola who traveled to Birmingham with their child just to see Dr. John Grant III. He is a very respected surgeon in this field.
Update: I wanted to leave an update on the surgery from earlier today. It was a success. Everything went well during the surgery, which lasted about 3 hours. As the surgeon put it, “everything fell into place” and he did not have to do any major reconstruction to fix his left nostril which was sort of pulled flat due to the cleft lip. The lip line looks fantastic and since our little trooper did have his Cupid’s Bow, when things were pulled together, the stitches fell right along the line of the left side of the Cupid’s Bow, so the scar may not be noticeable at all.