Maggie's Palate Repair
Post-Op Pictures
12/12/03-12/14/03
Surgery was on Friday morning, December 12. We went home Saturday evening (delayed because she was not feeding well).
Surgery was on Friday morning, December 12. We went home Saturday evening (delayed because she was not feeding well).
 Resting for a few seconds amidst all of the crying. This is right after she got out of the recovery room. |
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 Notice how round her face is here (compare to normal). She was a little puffy all over for a couple of hours. |
 The red you see on the left and on her chin is a stain from blood. The red on the right is a scrape on her cheek (she somehow got during surgery). |
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 If you click you can see the dressing. I was surprised how black it looked (old blood). |
 Dazed from the meds. |
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 That first night was awful! Here Daddy rests while Mags is wide awake! |
 While Daddy snoozes away in the middle of the night, Maggie is watching TV and Mommy is watching Maggie. |
 Finally smiling again! The next morning. |
 Daddy can finally smile again, too! |
 We went for a walk in the stroller to calm her fussiness. |
 Here you see what Mike affectionately called her flipper.She had her arm taped to a splint to keep the IV immobile, with the arm restraint on over that.It came off right before we left. |
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 This one and the next are both great views of the repair on the 2nd day. |
 The yellowish area on the sides is the dressing (sewn in) filling the gaps left by the incisions. |
 Happy baby, home again! |