Hi Corelly. Sorry to hear about your little girl. Big hugs hon xxx

My little Sophie was in a brace for 7 months from the age of 8 months old to 15 months. It was the age when she should have been crawling moving around etc. Like you said with your little girl - she lost her spark during the time and became such a serious little girl - but as far as the brace was concerned - she adjusted so well (better than us!) and towards the end learnt to bum shuffle around, stand up etc with the brace on. The O/Surgeon said to us when Sophie got the brace off that they take between 3 weeks to 12 weeks to catch up to their peers. Sophie took the full 12 weeks and she began to walk at 18 months old - but he was right - she was like any other little girl in the end! The hardest thing for Sophie was to learn to roll and then roll back again (which was a struggle at 1st esp. with her sleep) - but it only took 2 weeks for her to master. Sophie will soon be 3 (next month) and it seems so long ago that she had the brace on, it seems another life time altogether. But she's such an amazing little girl - she found her spark again She's such a funny fun little girl now and her favourite thing to do is DANCE especially wiggling those hips!!! She's such a joy and she's so full of love and care. I think they come out of it stronger with more character even if they're little babies.

It won't be long when you look back on this experience and think wow, did that really happen?! It is very shocking at the time, lonely and hard - I spent a lot of time crying in the beginning and the end when it was all over! I came out of the OS surgery a blubbering mess when he told me she was all better This is such a great site to just speak how you feel and ask questions! I don't come on here much anymore but I love receiving the emails.

Big hugs again ...
love
Susan
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