Guest guest Posted July 25, 2005 Report Share Posted July 25, 2005 Hi everyone-have a couple ???s for you. An acquaintance of ours had a baby 3 months ago. We just found out that he is wearing the DBB. From what we are told by the parents, their dr. said that the baby's feet weren't " quite clubfoot, but almost " , and that it happened because he was too cramped in the uterus. The dr. gave them three choices: Do nothing and wait and see, try casting, or do surgery. They went with the casting. He had 2 I believe because after the second time, the dr. said his feet were so flexible that they wouldn't need to do more. He is now in the DBB about 20 hrs. a day, but the dr. said they didn't need to be religious about it-that if they wanted them to be off for a day they could. Now I know that is not correct procedure for Ponseti, but is there such a thing as not quite clubfoot? The parents said that when the baby was born, his tendons were tight and that they could barely bend his feet. My husband and I told them what our son had to do-surgery, DBB 24/7, etc. We don't know these people very well, so we didn't push the subject too hard mostly because our son had severe clubfoot and thought maybe since this baby didn't, the protocol might be a little different. What's the consensus here? Jaren 4/18/02 rt. clubfoot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 25, 2005 Report Share Posted July 25, 2005 Hi everyone-have a couple ???s for you. An acquaintance of ours had a baby 3 months ago. We just found out that he is wearing the DBB. From what we are told by the parents, their dr. said that the baby's feet weren't " quite clubfoot, but almost " , and that it happened because he was too cramped in the uterus. The dr. gave them three choices: Do nothing and wait and see, try casting, or do surgery. They went with the casting. He had 2 I believe because after the second time, the dr. said his feet were so flexible that they wouldn't need to do more. He is now in the DBB about 20 hrs. a day, but the dr. said they didn't need to be religious about it-that if they wanted them to be off for a day they could. Now I know that is not correct procedure for Ponseti, but is there such a thing as not quite clubfoot? The parents said that when the baby was born, his tendons were tight and that they could barely bend his feet. My husband and I told them what our son had to do-surgery, DBB 24/7, etc. We don't know these people very well, so we didn't push the subject too hard mostly because our son had severe clubfoot and thought maybe since this baby didn't, the protocol might be a little different. What's the consensus here? Jaren 4/18/02 rt. clubfoot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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