My husband and I adopted a beautiful 6 month old baby in December in China. We

named her Lia Shu Grace. She will be 9 months old on March 4th and is currently

in a spica cast for congenital hip dysplasia. On Feb 4th, she had an open

reduction on her right hip and a closed reduction on her left hip. She will get

a new spica cast on March 6th and also begin serial casting for her bilateral

club feet. Although we live in North Carolina, we have elected to seek treatment

in Iowa City at the world renowned Ponseti clinic for clubfeet.

 

Lia is an absolutely delightful adorable baby. She is a gift--an absolute joy to

behold!

 

We're all adapting to life with a spica cast. My concern at the moment is that

she has a hard time burping now and will sometimes cry and scream hard during

bottle feeding. She also has had upper respiratory issues, congestion and

coughing, since we adopted her that seem to also confound the gas/burping issue.

Any advice would be great.

 

Thank you!

 

--Kristin

Mom to Lia Shu Grace, DOB 6/4/08, adopted 12/8/08, bilateral hip dysplasia,

bliateral clubfeet









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Hi Kristin, it's Jenn from BabyHipWear... though Emma was only in a

harness, I do know from dealing with other moms through my business

that due to the constraint from the cast, it does cause some

agitation with eating etc... glad you ordered the book Parents Guide

to Hip Dysplasia from my site, because I think you will find it

helpful.  I sent you an email this am so please read ans respond when

you can!



--- In clickyhipsclub@yahoogroups.com, Kristin Trangsrud

<ktrangsrud@...> wrote:

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> My husband and I adopted a beautiful 6 month old baby in December

in China. We named her Lia Shu Grace. She will be 9 months old on

March 4th and is currently in a spica cast for congenital hip

dysplasia. On Feb 4th, she had an open reduction on her right hip and

a closed reduction on her left hip. She will get a new spica cast on

March 6th and also begin serial casting for her bilateral club feet.

Although we live in North Carolina, we have elected to seek treatment

in Iowa City at the world renowned Ponseti clinic for clubfeet.

>  

> Lia is an absolutely delightful adorable baby. She is a gift--an

absolute joy to behold!

>  

> We're all adapting to life with a spica cast. My concern at the

moment is that she has a hard time burping now and will sometimes cry

and scream hard during bottle feeding. She also has had upper

respiratory issues, congestion and coughing, since we adopted her

that seem to also confound the gas/burping issue. Any advice would be

great.

>  

> Thank you!

>  

> --Kristin

> Mom to Lia Shu Grace, DOB 6/4/08, adopted 12/8/08, bilateral hip

dysplasia, bliateral clubfeet

>

>

>

>

> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

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