Hi Holly

Welcome to the forum. Sorry, it's taken so long for me to respond!

I'm sorry to hear that your baby has CDH and that pavlik harness
didn't work. What sort of surgery did your daughter have?

It is extremely common for children in hip spica's to suffer
wind/gas and constipation. This is due to them not moving around as
much. I cannot offer you any advise as my daughter, Emily, was 7
months when she went into her first spica and moved around almost
immediately. I just wanted you to know that wind problems are
common in young spica wearers.

Let us know how you get on.

Take care
Sara
--- In clickyhipsclub@yahoogroups.com, "Holly Robinson"
<brettholly@y...> wrote:
> I wanted to introduce myself. My name is Holly and I am a mother
of 5
> children, 3 girls and 2 boys. When I was a baby I had a Congenital
> Hip and my 5th child was recently diagnosed with this as well.
> Fortunately they found it when she was born at the hosptial. It is
in
> only one hip and the harness for 6 weeks did not work. She just
had a
> cast put on and we have been having a great deal of problems.
After
> many struggles I have managed to keep breastfeeding but she cries
> with extreme gas pain afterwards and is not sleeping well.
>
> The surgery was only a week ago. I am wondering if this will get
> better and if anyone has heard of a baby having gas from the
position
> the legs are in? The nurse at the doctors office said she thought
it
> was colic. It is not. Before the procedure last week her
disposition
> was very laid back and she slept most of the time.
>
> I am extremely sleep deprived and frazzled, especially being that
I
> have 4 other children ranging from 10yr to 17mo.
>
> Thanks for any feedback.
>
> Holly