Hello everyone! Well as most of you know, we went in for our ultrasound last Friday to find out the sex of the baby. However, we also went to a perinatal center to check for cleft lip/ cleft palate. As it turns out, it looks as though our Baby BOY will have a cleft lip.

First, we will go meet Dr. Kevin Smith with the oral maxifacial surgeon team at OU Children's Center. Apparently, this guy is THE MAN when it comes to cleft lip or palate repair. We have heard nothing but amazing things about him from my OBGYN, the perinatal center, as well as a friend of my I graduated high school who happens to be doing his rotations under him right now!!!! Small world!! Until we meet with him, I don't have many anwers to very many questions; however, we meet with him AUGUST 30th and we will ask him as much as we can think of between now and then. Then back to the periatal center for another ultrasound to see if we can determine anything else with the palate or the severity of the lip on September 26th.

For those who don't know what this means:
This is the basics of what I am aware of.....I was born with a unilateral cleft lip (just one side effected), my palate was completely intact. I am hoping and praying that this is what our little boy has if it has to be this way!! If so, he will most likely go through several operations: 1. to close and repair the lip, 2. probably a cosmetic surgery before he starts to school to polish the lip, scar tissue, etc. 3. he will need bone grafting (take bone from his jaw to place into his gums to eventually provide support for a false tooth--bone is typically absent from the cleft side), 4. a nose repair at some point. If he does have a cleft palate, it means a whole new "can of worms" as eating will be different, more surgeries and procedures, and speech help most likely.

With each visit, I plan to post what the doctors are saying on this site. I am too good right now at being scatter brained and not remembering who all I have told and each of you are probably getting different details, I am sure of it!!

So , until the 30th, Jeff and I ask for your prayers for a miracle and for best case scenario!!