One of the not so fun highlights of post surgery care for your cleft affected child will be to have them wear the dreaded arm splints.They slip on the arms over their sleeves and are adjusted with Velcro closures. At 3 months after his lip repair surgery it wasn’t so bad having the arm splints on because it kept him from being able to reach up to his face and suck on his fingers or hit himself in the face….
Our son needed to be 3 mos. of age, minimum 10 lbs. and have no sign of a cold or infection in order to continue with the scheduled cleft lip repair surgery. These first three months were exhausting, as they are with any new parent but especially so with an infant that has special needs. We kept our little one healthy and with doctors visits weekly to both his pediatrician and Cleft Care Team it was definitely hard to keep…
