Thanks for your input. My daughter’s husband was born with severe club foot. That was almost 40 years ago and things have changed dramatically since then. The orthopedic surgeon ,who will care for the baby, interned under the Dr. who treated my son-in-law. He was so encouraging. My daughter’s thinking is that in the scheme of things this is a minor glitch. Her best friend has a 2 year old who was born with a very rare chromosomal defect and every day is a struggle. She has no idea what the future holds for this little girl.
She's right about that. It's a lot of trips to the doctor for the first year or so (IIRC, every week for the first 2 or 3 months and then every couple of weeks after that.
One thing I recall is that my daughter had to learn to walk 3 times. Before she was a year old, she was done with the castings and just wearing the shoes with a bar in between at night (she hated them). She started walking like any other kid would. At a year old, she went in for surgery to cut the heal tendon and allow the feet some more rotation and was put in castes for I think about a month after that until the tendons healed. Well she figured out how to walk on the casts and did pretty good. After the casts came off, her ankles were naturally kind of weak and she had to figure out how to walk again without casts. She did it just fine. Kids are pretty amazing little critters.
Her best friend has a 2 year old who was born with a very rare chromosomal defect and every day is a struggle. She has no idea what the future holds for this little girl.
One thing I realized taking our baby to the doctors and the childrens hospital for treatments was just how blessed we were and how trival our worries were compared to others.