Got my fingers crossed for you hun.

My DD had clicky hips at birth but she wasn't checked again until the u/s at 7 weeks. She had no visible signs of having it and the u/s showed it was severe in both hips (left worse than right). First brace went on for four weeks 24/7 but there was no improvement so she had to have an open reduction (where they operate to put the ball back in the socket) and was in a plaster cast for five weeks. Once the cast came off, she had a final brace on until she was 11 months old.

BUT......DD's case was in the worst 10%. She pretty much had no socket. The socket won't grow unless there is a bone in it, so there was no improvement until the two were forced together in the open reduction. It was long term for us because her hips were terrible. She's now 3 and other than not being able to lift her left leg as high as her right, something only DH and I notice, you can't tell that anything was amiss.

The fact that your DS's hips pop means that there is a ball and socket there and the pop could be something totally unrelated to dysplasia. It could just mean he needs an alignment of some sort that a chiropractor could treat. Try not to worry