Addy Pulled Out Her Nose Retainer

Addy had a plastic retainer that the plastic surgeon put in her nose after her cleft lip surgery. It prevents the nose from pulling downward like it usually does as the lip heals and shrinks. We were supposed to go back in six weeks to get it taken out but were waiting on a clinic with the palate team as well to go since it is an 8 hour drive there.

Well yesterday Addy had been extra fussy. I took her out of her bouncer and put her on her tummy on the floor and started patting her on her but to try and calm her down cause she was acting like she was fighting her sleep. I then put her on her side cause that's how she usually sleeps and she started putting her hands in her face which always scares me. Well when I went to grab her hand away from her face she started screaming before I could get it away from her nose.

She had pulled out the plastic retainer that was stitched into her nose. OMG I was sh'n bricks. I was so scared. I looked at her to see if there was any bleeding which there was not. I immediately called the plastic surgeon's office and they were closed. Thank god they have an after hours line that you hold for. I told the guy what had just happened and he got it all down and paged Dr. Wang for me. He called me not too long after and I told him what had happened. He told me it was fine just to throw away the retainer and clean out her nose with peroxide and then put some ointment in it, that it would heal on its own.

So she's fine now with no more ugly nose plug!! Hopefully now her nose won't be so sensitive. She gave me quite a scare yesterday. I'm so glad she's ok. Well here's the new pictures!! Can't wait to go get her 6 month pictures done now!!