Wow you guys have been busy chatting! Feel like i cant keep up with you all!

Good Luck to Furgurnie, Sounds like you have already left for the operation, sorry i didn't get back to you with an answer to your question earlier.

"Madcat, how long after your daughter's first op did you find out that she needed another? Was she in a lot of pain post op? How long did she stay in hospital for?"

Kira was 9mths when first diagnosed, she had closed reduction and tendonectomy, surgeon said one year later that she may need further ops before she goes to school. It was always in the back of my head at every apptment, fast forward to now, she is 5 and has just had a salter osteotomy. Still not sure if she will need further procedures. When they are small it is hard to project how their hips will look, even one year on, so as parents of kids with DHD we all need to be mentally prepared for the possibility of our lovely ones having surgery. Its a long process, but it is worth every minute to see them being the best they can be. oops go carried away... Um yes she was in quite alot of post op pain, took awhile to work out how much Morphine to give her to keep pain at bay (I nearly took out a couple of nurses in the battle, and i am normally very calm!!) But they did redo the op four days later because bone graft moved out of position, i dont think this helped on the pain scale. we were in hospital a total of eight days.
The best part is: Someone asked Kira if she liked being in hospital, to my shock, she said it was great! She must have blocked out all the yucky bits and only remembers being able to eat as much ice cream and jelly as she wanted!
So as traumatic as it is for us, our little ones seem to have some AWESOME inbuilt coping strategies!!!!!!

Hip Hip Hooray!