Megan Update: 6 week visit

We know many of you are interested in keeping up with Megan's progress so we will try to update as much as we can in that aspect. We took our second trip down to Indianapolis to visit the doctors at Riley last weekend. Megan is doing well and has grown so much! She weighed in at 10 lb 10 oz on Monday, which is a great improvement from six weeks before at under 7 lbs. We visited with Dr. Wooden, the plastic surgeon (on the right) first and he seemed pleased with her progress. He said we could go ahead and schedule surgery for her at 3-4 months of age, so we are currently set for October 2nd. The first surgery is a lip repair where they connect her lip and reconstruct her nose. There may be a series of operations to follow in her life to make adjustments as necessary. Palate surgery does not happen until closer to one year of age.

Next we saw the dentist, Dr. Kugar (on the left), and she just wanted to make sure the obturator was still fitting properly and that we were doing ok with it. When Megan goes in for her lip repair they will take another mold of her mouth to make a new obturator since she will have grown bigger since her first one done at 5 days old.

If you are curious about the surgery, there is a video you can watch about it. It's about 15 minutes long and is geared toward parents who are preparing to take their baby in to surgery. As for how they make everything work, we have no idea! But we are just grateful for the amazing things they can do these days. At the end of the video it has a few before and after pictures of patients. To watch the video, click HERE and then on the "Snapshot in Time" link.

AND just for fun, here is a picture of Megan doing some "tummy time" :)