Hi all,

I only just found this thread, but want to offer a as we are hopefully nearing the end of our journey.

at 2 weeks mchn found a click in the left hip of dd, and asked me to mention it to the doc at the 6 week check up. (If we have another bub I will be getting any clicks checked earlier) waited until 6 weeks and by 7 weeks had a DB brace on.

Like so many others I too cried, I felt like I was going to miss out on something, that I had failed my little girl. And yes she smiled at me the whole time. I only had about 24hours to get used to the idea, because we were lucky enough to get an appointment right away at the rch. The night before we had a nice warm shower together and some non brace skin to contact, and a big cuddle. On the day i dressed her as cute as I could in the 000 jeans I had recently purchased so that she got at least one wear out of them!

After the brace she was in a little disscomfort, but more because she couldn't move her legs the way she was used to, and became accustomed to the brace very quickly. After 1 week we went back to have the size of the brace checked, and she was upgraded to a bigger size (wish i had kept the tiny brace).

She continued to sleep well (not anymore but that's a different story not related to the brace) and thrive, no problems feeding, took a few days to re-learn how to poo in that position though.

Our first appointment back was after only 3 weeks, and shows just how clever little bodies are as her right hip was very boarderline and the left had improved to 60% ?? coverage with just a little rounding in the corners to be ironed out, and we could remove the brace for baths, so no more sponge baths.

6 weeks later for another check and progressing very well still, rights pretty good, and just the tiniest bit left on the left side, and yay we are down to nights and naps only. (which I have to say I found much more logistically difficult)

we are due to go back in under 3 weeks and i am crossing my fingers that this little girl can bid farewell to the brace and start a moving and a shakin, because she soooo wants to.

All in all, I was sad at first, but new it had to be done. In retrospect I am extreemly glad it was done at such a young age, with very little intrusion on her life, and body.

so to anyone at the start of this journey you will survive, it will be ok and it is all for the best