Hello, I wanted to introduce myself. My name is Melissa and I have
three daughters, ages 6, 4 & 18m. My 18m. old Caroline was just
diagnosed with ddh. Her left hip is dislocated & they will explore her
right hip on Monday, when she is scheduled for a reduction (open or
closed) with possible femoral and pelvic osteotomies.
This has all happened so fast, in the past 2 weeks, and I am glad to
find some support from those who are going through it too.
Hello! I'd just like to introduce myself - my name is Amanda and my youngest child, Tess who is 13 months, had a closed reduction on 30th September (we've...
Hi Amander, My name is Leanne, my daughter, Sophie had a closed reduction August 2001 she spent 12 weeks in a frog plaster. This unfortunatly did not work so...
Hi Amanda, Sophie is getting on very well. She came out of plaster in August and has recovered very well. Part of this was due to the fact that Sophie spent...
Hi All I've just discovered this forum from a link on the Steps web page. Our daughter Kiera (21 months) had her CDH picked up two months ago by a wonderful...
Hi Sam, My daughter Sophie was found to have CDH at 8 months, she had a closed reduction and 12 weeks of plaster. After 3 months the hip dislocated which came...
Hi Leanne Thanks for replying! Can you tell me how Sophie was after the open reduction (painwise) and was the hip spica the same as the one she had for the...
Hi Sam, Sophie didn`t have too much pain after the op. They gave her morphine but that made her quite sick but after something to stop the sickness she...
Thanks Leanne, it helps to know a little of whats coming up, the spasms sound frightening though, at least we'll be prepared now if it does happen. We...
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...
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....
I recognize a couple of names here, my youngest is hannahka was diagnosed at birth with bilateral DDH 8 days driple diaper, pavlik for 4 months, free for 4...
Hello, I wanted to introduce myself. My name is Melissa and I have three daughters, ages 6, 4 & 18m. My 18m. old Caroline was just diagnosed with ddh. Her...
Welcome Melissa. The board isn't very active, but Joy is a wonderful resource! (Thank you Joy). We adopted our daughter from China just 4 weeks ago. After...
Hi Brenda, I've been reading about your sweet Alivia, what a journey you've been on! I admire your courage. We are in Tennessee, just outside Nashville, so...
My DD was diagnosed at birth but she didn't have her surgery til she was 18 months old. That was May 23rd, 2007. Her left hip was dislocated and she had an...
Thanks Joy! I am almost hoping they go ahead & do the osteotomies now like they did with your dd. I know that is terrible but it just seems likely she will...
Yes I am really grateful that they got it all done in 1 surgery (took 5 hours) and only having to go thru the experience with the spica cast 1 time. And shes...
Thanks Joy. We debated about going to Kosairs, we have a friend who had a great experience there (her son has a different problem). But, since it is 4 hours...
Go ahead and ask whatever you want. If you have myspace or facebook or cafemom pages i could show you pics of her in the casts and the scars after, etc. Well,...
Melissa, Hello. Regarding the walking, because Alivia is 2.5 & very mobile already, the dr said she'd probably be walking immediately after removing the...
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