Jacksnjeff - we've been given the all clear. DD doesn't have to visit the surgeon until May next year and if all is still good then, visits will become every couple of years until she is 14. DD's story is that the midwife found she had a clicky hip at birth. Four days later the hospital paed found it to still be clicky so we were referred for an ultrasound at 2 weeks. The ultrasound people said she was too little to do then and DH and I already had the heebie jeebies about the paed so we left and waited to see my ob at the six week check up. We got him to refer us to a paed, saw him the next week and then it felt like it was rush rush over a handful of days. The paed couldn't feel anything was wrong, so he sent DD for an ultrasound where it was found that one hip socket was virtually non existant and the other was shallow. Into the surgeon's rooms, into the first brace, the Dennis Browne for 24/7 for 4 weeks with the weekly movement of the brace. At the end of that it was found that there was no improvement so she had an open reduction and into the cast for 6 weeks (we were lucky that the anethesist that the surgeon wanted to use was going on holidays so our cast came off at 5 weeks!!) The cast came off at the end of August and she was in the rhino cruiser until February where her hips were deemed "perfect". She's now 16 months, can sit, roll, crawl, scoot on her bum and walk while holding furniture and her walker. So that's our story!!!!

While I'm at it.......I want to really say thank you to everyone that has helped me here in this group. I had very little support at home. DH was at work, my most reliable family live over an hour away and my mum, normally always there for us, was on a six month overseas trip, leaving the week before DD was born and returning two or so weeks after the rhino cruiser went on. Without this group, I would've gone mad. So to those wonderful people who helped me in the early days, heard my tears and sympathised with the pain we were going through, I really thank you from the bottom of my heart. MummyNaomi, an enormous thank you to you, you are one special lady. So for anyone going through this now, I will be here, because I know how invaluable the tips that I got in those early days were and how hard it would've been for me without it.

Corelly x