Deegan, is my youngest son, he's 3 years old.
He was born with club foot and cleft lip...so, after a few years of
surgery, castings, braces, etc, he is pretty much all "repaired"...walks
fine, acts fine, just a regular kiddo. (Well, he's exceptionally nutty
lol a crazy daredevil actually)
But so, this summer, Deegan started noticing his nose is slightly different then mine or his siblings noses, and he asks why....
He also refuses to look at all his baby pictures, from before his lip surgery, (even though, we love them! The extra giant smile is adorable!)
And now, he's been picking at his scar above his lip, and asking why
there is a bump there, and he also asks why his teeth are "messed
up"..they're not bad at all, although he may require surgery, depending on
what his adult teeth are going to come in as....
The cleft palate
clinic mentioned another surgery for his nose, although it doesn't have to
be done for anything that would benefit his health..
My decision is that we aren't going to be scheduling this surgery, he can make this decision on his own.
I don't want him to think that he wasn't good enough, and so we "fixed" his nose that he was born with...
When he's bigger, if he wants more surgery to fix his nose, and maybe
to make his scar less noticeable, he can if he chooses. Id think he'd
keep it the way it is, since its a part of who he is.
My question
is, does anybody have any advice on how to get a 3 yr old, to be happy
when he sees his baby pictures, or how to help him realize that his nose,
teeth and lip are fine?
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