Parenting & Lifestyle Blog By Carissa Godbott
As you know Emma is in preschool, however, one of the things I love about her school is that she is basically treated like an elementary student versus a “preschool” student. Next week Darrick and I will be attending parent-teacher conferences, and unlike most parents I actually like meeting with her teacher and hearing about how Emma is doing this…
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Coming into this cleft journey we (Darrick and I) relied heavily on the suggestions of the doctors and nurses. They gave us suggestions on who we should see for what, and even gave feedback from other parents. As time has passed we have learned to find different therapist or doctors based on Emma’s needs and learning type. We have been…
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It Gets Better… I like to think of myself as a “seasoned” mom in the Cleft Community since my daughter is now 4 years old. I don’t know it all but I do feel like we have made it past some of our hardest times and there is light at the end of the tunnel. You see we are pass…
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This blog post is 100% my own opinion. I am sharing how we work with our doctors and surgeons. I fully understand that everyone’s hospital, doctor and surgeons do not work like this (and you should understand that too before reading)…I am from sharing from our own personal experiences. The reason for sharing is to help give you tips to…
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July is Cleft Awareness Month and as always I try to share a little information about my Cleft Cutie, Emma! I realized that I haven’t posted an update in quite some time so what better month to share it than this month! This year has been pretty good in terms of dealing with surgeries! Our last surgery was in April…
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