Freedom..... Loving life!!!!

Avery enjoying a few new freedoms. The bottom right is Avery's cleft side. It looks great and so much better than before the adhesion. We wonder what the next surgery will bring!! Her nose is really taking shape. The part in the middle is almost straight now and her nostril is really holding it's shape so far. Baby gets crabby... baby gets naked- works every time. We just dug out the old mobile and she went nuts over it, cooing and screaming over it. Avery also enjoyed her first video - The Laurie Berkner Band. She watched the whole thing with big sis GK. This gave me some much needed clean up time in the kitchen. Soon I think Avery will be rolling over. She swings and rocks those little legs back and forth over and over.... She looks to me as if she were saying.. come on mom, can't you see I need help here!

Things are going pretty well here. Avery does still battle with gas which makes her a little like jeckel and hide. One moment Avery will be happy and predictable and the next hour she'll be in agony over gas bubbles. We are tempted to take her off her medication for reflux.. reasons being: 1) her fussiness never seemed to be in conjunction with her spit-up, 2) she spits up the least out of all of our babies 3) I have a hard time believing that breast milk could cause pain due to the fact that it is a bodily fluid.. PH is the same as spit. I have also had a suspicion that Milk is the culprit, and not true reflux. Anyone have any thoughts on this? leave a comment or email me.
We do have a new friend in Alabama whose daughter does have reflux and is breastfed only... She also has a cleft like Avery's.

Avery has been so happy lately I hate to rock the boat with any changes.