Re: Re: New here and our story

[Guest guest]

Hi Wow I can really relate to your story its a lot like mine. WHen my son was

born 03/20/05 I was on the phone with my husband letting him hear his son for

the first time he is also over seas not in the military but he was deported

(thats another story in itself) anyways I was telling him what a beautiful boy

we had and I could see all the nurses and the three family members that were

with me when I delivered him looking at him across the room talking about

something and saying dont worry her with it now, well of coarse I'm all

emotional as it is crying to my husband because he cant be there and all the

emotions that come along with having a baby anyway I demand to know what they

are talking about. They bring Noah to me and show me his foot. The nurse says

its nothing a lot of babies come out like this and it will straighten on its

own. My aunt laughs and says " ya its because your so tiny and you pushed that

big old thing out of you what did you expect. So I feel a little better. At

3:00 am an orthopedic comes in my room and wants to look at the foot. he shows

me that it can bend back to a normal position and says for me to exercize it

daily and by 2 months it will be fixed otherwise they will refer me to an

orthopedic sergen. I say ok still think its no big deal. 2 months go by with no

improvement at all I go to the orthopedic where he still never diognosis it as

club foot instead says that he will cast it and about 3-4 casts he will be fine.

He puts on the cast about 2 inches below the knee and sends me and Noah on our

way. Well it didnt look right but I figured they know what they are doing. He

told me to soak the cast off the night before my next appoinment, I did that and

there was a slight improvement but by morning the foot was back to how it looked

before any treatment. I go and theres a different doctor this time, (trying to

see the same doctor twice at Kaiser is impossible) this doctor doesnt even touch

Noah foot instead sits on the chair with his

clip board and watches the cast guy put on the cast. I go home and 20 min later

Noah had kicked off the cast. In the meantime I started searching the web for

answers because I just didnt feel good about what they were doing. I found out

and that my son had club foot by myself from looking at pictures on the internet

of children with club feet and they looked very similar to my son's feet. I went

back to the doctor and asked him about this he said ya it might be club foot. He

puts another cast on him another short leg one and the whole cast turns in with

his foot. I asked how can this be straightening his foot when the whole thing

turns in? He said it is inside the cast. I asked him how long do you think this

will take to correct? he said well I dont know we dont do enough of these for me

to answer that. That right there told me I needed to do some major research and

find my son a doctor that knew what he was doing. I found doctor Ponseti and I

have been e-mailing him and I'm going

there next week all the way to Iowa fr him to treat my son. I'm so excited and

cant wait until this is all over and my baby has a normal foot like all the

other little boys. He is 4 months old now, if Kaiser would have had a little

more knowledge of club foot he probubly would be healed by now. So has your

husband come home yet? did you send him lots of pictures? Its so hard when they

can't be with you, I dont know when my husband will be home we are still working

on it but its not easy these days. Well sory this is so long and you though you

wrote a novel!

Noah 03/20/05 lcf

loulee3412 wrote:

Welcome to the group!! I am glad you found it. It sounds

like you guys are doing great now!!!

Louisa

Rachael 6-27-99

Zoe 2-22-04 RCF FAB Nights

> Hi!

>

> My son Mason was born on May 14, 2004. As soon as he was taken

away

> from me to be put under the heating lamp, I noticed his foot. I

> kept asking " what's wrong " and all the nurses kept saying " nothing,

> nothing " . The next morning, the pediatrician on duty said that the

> foot would eventually correct itself and I thought that was

odd...it

> was very misshaped. The next day, a different pediatrician said

> that we needed to make an appointment with a podiatrist and that it

> definatly was not club foot but that it would be corrected with

> casts. Of course the podiatrist said " it's club foot " and I wept.

> I was very hormonal and my husband was in Iraq. It was such a hard

> thing to hear and it was even harder to see my 4 day old baby in

> casts. Mason continued to have casts on both feet for 5 months.

At

> 5 & 1/2 months, we were flown to DC just to meet with an pediatric

> orthopedic surgeon. He decided he wanted to release the tendion

the

> next morning. Another total shock. Mason's foot looked amazing

> after the cast came off! He finally had a heel! But being a

> military family stationed in Germany, we have had some huge bumps

in

> the road gettting the DBB. Mason's final cast came off in the

first

> week of November, he is finally wearing the DBB now. He is

actually

> wearing a german version of it since the military doctors kept

> making us cruddy braces to go into shoes into the bar. It was a

> mess. He is taking to the bar very well and slept through the

night

> on the very first night (and every night since). He was cruising

> before, and he just learned to pull himself up and walk sideways

> today. His foot is looking amazing after 1 week...makes me so

> excited to see how it will look in 2 months.

>

> Sorry this is a novel! It is so nice to hear from other

parents

> who are going through the same thing I am!

[Guest guest]

Hi Wow I can really relate to your story its a lot like mine. WHen my son was

born 03/20/05 I was on the phone with my husband letting him hear his son for

the first time he is also over seas not in the military but he was deported

(thats another story in itself) anyways I was telling him what a beautiful boy

we had and I could see all the nurses and the three family members that were

with me when I delivered him looking at him across the room talking about

something and saying dont worry her with it now, well of coarse I'm all

emotional as it is crying to my husband because he cant be there and all the

emotions that come along with having a baby anyway I demand to know what they

are talking about. They bring Noah to me and show me his foot. The nurse says

its nothing a lot of babies come out like this and it will straighten on its

own. My aunt laughs and says " ya its because your so tiny and you pushed that

big old thing out of you what did you expect. So I feel a little better. At

3:00 am an orthopedic comes in my room and wants to look at the foot. he shows

me that it can bend back to a normal position and says for me to exercize it

daily and by 2 months it will be fixed otherwise they will refer me to an

orthopedic sergen. I say ok still think its no big deal. 2 months go by with no

improvement at all I go to the orthopedic where he still never diognosis it as

club foot instead says that he will cast it and about 3-4 casts he will be fine.

He puts on the cast about 2 inches below the knee and sends me and Noah on our

way. Well it didnt look right but I figured they know what they are doing. He

told me to soak the cast off the night before my next appoinment, I did that and

there was a slight improvement but by morning the foot was back to how it looked

before any treatment. I go and theres a different doctor this time, (trying to

see the same doctor twice at Kaiser is impossible) this doctor doesnt even touch

Noah foot instead sits on the chair with his

clip board and watches the cast guy put on the cast. I go home and 20 min later

Noah had kicked off the cast. In the meantime I started searching the web for

answers because I just didnt feel good about what they were doing. I found out

and that my son had club foot by myself from looking at pictures on the internet

of children with club feet and they looked very similar to my son's feet. I went

back to the doctor and asked him about this he said ya it might be club foot. He

puts another cast on him another short leg one and the whole cast turns in with

his foot. I asked how can this be straightening his foot when the whole thing

turns in? He said it is inside the cast. I asked him how long do you think this

will take to correct? he said well I dont know we dont do enough of these for me

to answer that. That right there told me I needed to do some major research and

find my son a doctor that knew what he was doing. I found doctor Ponseti and I

have been e-mailing him and I'm going

there next week all the way to Iowa fr him to treat my son. I'm so excited and

cant wait until this is all over and my baby has a normal foot like all the

other little boys. He is 4 months old now, if Kaiser would have had a little

more knowledge of club foot he probubly would be healed by now. So has your

husband come home yet? did you send him lots of pictures? Its so hard when they

can't be with you, I dont know when my husband will be home we are still working

on it but its not easy these days. Well sory this is so long and you though you

wrote a novel!

Noah 03/20/05 lcf

loulee3412 wrote:

Welcome to the group!! I am glad you found it. It sounds

like you guys are doing great now!!!

Louisa

Rachael 6-27-99

Zoe 2-22-04 RCF FAB Nights

> Hi!

>

> My son Mason was born on May 14, 2004. As soon as he was taken

away

> from me to be put under the heating lamp, I noticed his foot. I

> kept asking " what's wrong " and all the nurses kept saying " nothing,

> nothing " . The next morning, the pediatrician on duty said that the

> foot would eventually correct itself and I thought that was

odd...it

> was very misshaped. The next day, a different pediatrician said

> that we needed to make an appointment with a podiatrist and that it

> definatly was not club foot but that it would be corrected with

> casts. Of course the podiatrist said " it's club foot " and I wept.

> I was very hormonal and my husband was in Iraq. It was such a hard

> thing to hear and it was even harder to see my 4 day old baby in

> casts. Mason continued to have casts on both feet for 5 months.

At

> 5 & 1/2 months, we were flown to DC just to meet with an pediatric

> orthopedic surgeon. He decided he wanted to release the tendion

the

> next morning. Another total shock. Mason's foot looked amazing

> after the cast came off! He finally had a heel! But being a

> military family stationed in Germany, we have had some huge bumps

in

> the road gettting the DBB. Mason's final cast came off in the

first

> week of November, he is finally wearing the DBB now. He is

actually

> wearing a german version of it since the military doctors kept

> making us cruddy braces to go into shoes into the bar. It was a

> mess. He is taking to the bar very well and slept through the

night

> on the very first night (and every night since). He was cruising

> before, and he just learned to pull himself up and walk sideways

> today. His foot is looking amazing after 1 week...makes me so

> excited to see how it will look in 2 months.

>

> Sorry this is a novel! It is so nice to hear from other

parents

> who are going through the same thing I am!