Katfish, your DD will adjust but it does take a while. My DD took a day or two to get back to her normal sleeping habits. When we first started we put a thinly folded towel under her feet. It wasn't very thick but just enough to support her feet a little bit.

When we got our first pavlik harness it was rough against DD's neck. The physio put a very soft gauze around the neckstrap of the brace and fastened it with tape. When DD went up in brace size the physio had a second hand brace which we borrowed. It was clean but didn't look great (the velcro tends to grab fabric fibres and then pill) but was so much softer.

Cheers,

Crosswig