Dyna Cleft Tape Pictures

This picture is in the hospital, just two days old.
Before using the tape.

I think the milk allergy was starting to kick in here,because this was the beginning of miserable. You can also see a little jaundice. I wish I had a better picture to show, but this is it. The hospital, with no explanation, did not take a baby picture. Fortunately, my sister took a few beautiful ones, but none of those show the cleft. (She's quite a terrific photo taker!)

One more note: Holly's official diagnosis is this: complete cleft lip on the left, an incomplete cleft lip on the right and a complete bilateral cleft palate. Her surgeries have been so far the same as a complete bilateral cleft lip and palate, I mean both sides of her lip were repaired. I use the abbreviation (BCLP) because I don't know a short way to say the whole official thing :-)

Just before the Lip Repair

Can you believe the difference? Really, I hated that tape. But just before the surgery...Wow. What I did like about the tape was explaining it to people, having something to say, rather than not knowing what to say, just talk about the tape. :-)

Just so you know, 3 months later at 6mos old.
It's really hard to believe.