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To: surrey
The baby is going to have club foot and will need clothing that can be worn with casts.

My oldest child, now 30 years old, was born with bilateral club feet --- both 90 degrees from where they should be.

We went through the castings starting at day number two of her life and every week for the first few months. From there, it was shoes with bars at night and then some surgery at age one with more casts, orthopedic shoes and then another final surgery at age five. By the time she was 8 years old, she was done and we no longer needed to see the orthopedist.

If you would see her today you would never know there was ever any problem to begin with. She is just a beautiful young woman, with her own beautiful daughter and she does not even remember the treatments -- even if I remember it vividly every time she had pain from the casting and operations.

Tell your daughter that it is no big deal, because it isn't.

31 posted on 06/16/2009 8:32:00 PM PDT by Ditto
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To: Ditto
You said it better than I could!!

( . . . I must read the entire thread before posting . . . I must read the entire thread before posting . . . )

34 posted on 06/17/2009 7:17:45 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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