hi new to this site,
Have a little girl just gone into spica cast. Usual six week deal hopefully and then braces. Think I have my head around it. She is 9 months old and diagnosed late. Had just started to commando crawl and was told she would not do this in the cast but after one week she is getting around. just wondering if this is normal and can it do any damage? she is getting great upper body strength already. Anyone had any dealings with this. Thanks Rarni
Hi Rarni

Welcome

My DS was diagnosed at 20mths - he commando crawled as soon as he was out of bed after the first cast went on.. the Dr's said that this wasn't a problem and not to be concerned because how can you stop them really??!!
DS had 3 casts and crawled in all of them.. the only thing you need to watch out for is wearing through to the knees.. DS wore through 2 of his casts... the third they re-inforsed but this then created a problem when removing it as it was too thick to get the saw through. I would suggest that if you notice this happening to use duck tape or something to re-inforce the knees.

The last brace we has DS even learnt to walk in it!!!! I think there just isn't stopping some kids... we never stressed about it.. he was happy and that was the main thing in our opinion.