Hip Diplaysia Support Group #3

[ingrid]

Hi Everyone

THanks for all your advice and tips. When we found out the car seat wasnt going to work, we begged and pleaded with SafenSound to send us the extendable buckle. They were actually very very good and sent it too us next day delivery free of charge. It seems that if we turn the car seat forward facing and pad it up that we can just get the strap and buckle to meet.
Jasmin was a little better yesterday but still fairly unsettled. I did find that getting out with the pram helped so we made the long journey to the local shopping centre on foot (about 5 km each way) and she slept both there and back and woke up while we were there. This killed about 4 hours where she was relatively happy.
Also had quite a reasonable sleep last night. We put her down at 8pm and she wasnt awake again until about 3:30. Not as good as her previously sleeping through the night but not bad considering. We cant get her to take anywhere near as much formula or breastfeed in one go either. SHe used to take either both boobs or 220 ml of formula. Now she is only taking about 80-90 ml at most in one go. Is this normal? They told us she wouldnt take as much but I expected that not to be so much difference.
It also doesnt help her that 4 of her top teeth are all breaking through at once. She got the bottom two just before she was 4 months and the top have decided to make a rapid catch up.
She still is not really back onto solids either and will only take them reluctantly sitting on your lap.
THe other thing we are concerned about is that she hasnt had a bowel movement for 4 days now whereas she used to be 1-2 a day. We are a bit scared about the first one. Is this common after a general anesthetic?

Thanks again
Ingrid

[bridee]

Hi All,

We had good news today, Georgie can come out of the harness for all but the night sleep and at Xmas we can stop altogether. We were hoping this was going to happen but never wanted to get our hopes up to much. I was a skeptical after the ultrasound, the report said her left hip was normal with 70% coverage and right mild displacia and 70% coverage. Given it was the same coverage but 1 classed as mild I didn't know if she was going to be able to come out but the Dr said he deemed them normal and we would just gradually wean her of the harness with night us only. So very exciting. She has just gone to sleep without the harness on, she was kicking her legs all over the place and moving up in the cot, annoying since I want her to sleep but I'm not complaining I loved looking at her discover her new freedom.