Over the rainbow

I started to write a whole long post about Zoe's cranio-facial team meeting yesterday, but it quickly became god-awful boring. Instead I'll just hit the highlights.

- Big news! Zoe may qualify for EI (Early Intervention) because of her cleft lip. If so, we may be able to get a speech therapist to work with her at our home at no cost. I'm going to ask Zoe's pediatrician to refer us and have an assessment team visit after her one year well baby visit next month.

- Her teeth are our main concern currently. Part of the reason why they seem crooked is because her aveolar ridge is still rotated out. This will naturally turn in over the next several months. We need to find a pediatric dentist in our area (preferably one who has experience with cleft babies) to take some x-rays to find out where her next top teeth will come in. Impeccable dental hygiene is extremely important right now, we've begun brushing her teeth and totally banned juice.

- Dr. Noonan was so happy to see his "princess". He said our visit yesterday was more of a benefit to him than to us. He thinks she is healing remarkable well and made sure that his staff had taken alot of pictures of her. He once again reiterated that there are no more surgeries needed for her at this time. We may consider a lip enhancement in a couple of years, but even that is becoming more and more unnecessary. We'll see him again in April for another assessment.

- Both the audiologist and ENT passed Zoe with flying colors. Her ears are that of a "normal" 11 month old, her hearing is excellent and she is not anymore prone to ear infections than her peers.

- Zoe did very well during the visits, although she was very wiggly and would not stay on my lap...this does not bode well for our upcoming cross-country trip!

I revisited Zoe's photo montage today as I sent it to a couple of her team members. I want to have it posted somewhere on this blog, it shows how far she's come.

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