Hi everybody,

We moved from a small Pavlik harness to a medium sized one today. The physio let me give DD2 a bath. It felt so good to hug my little girl without the harness and she loved her bath. It was pretty sad to put the new harness on but hopefully we'll have some progress at her next check-up with the ped in 8 weeks. It would be nice to have a couple of harness free hours a day.

I need some advice from the network, just before we got the harness I asked our ped if he'd provide me with a certificate so that I could use sick leave for the time that we have the harness on. He didn't think that work would cover it - but my HR have confirmed they will if I have a certificate - because it isn't that much extra work. So at the moment I'm using my Long Service Leave and annual leave to care for her. Does anyone else have any experiences on this front? I know compared to families in a spica we have it much easier but I'd rather spend my leave doing something like going on a big family holiday when we are harness free. Do I just leave it or ask again?

With best wishes to all,

Crosswig