Re: What clothes to purchase?

July 28, 2003

Hi Joline,

Congratulations on your pregnancy! I have found that regular baby clothes

fit fine over the casts so I don't think it is necessary for you to purchase

special items. But when your baby is put into the shoes with the bar you

will ABSOLUTELY need all kinds of clothes and pajamas that have snaps

throughout the entire bottom. You will want to be able to change all of the

baby's clothes without having to take the shoes off and on.

HTH

What clothes to purchase?

Our baby which is due in early November has been diagnosis with

unilateral club foot on the right foot. We already have one child and

I'm trying to figure out what clothes I can purchase for her when she

is in the casts. What works and what doesn't? We plan on starting

treatment within days of her birth.

TIA!

Joline

July 28, 2005

Joline-

While in the casting phase, our son wore everything-the footed

sleepers/onesies worked well-especially the terrycloth ones as

they stretched nicely. I felt more comfortable taking out in the

footed one piece sleepers as it covered the casts and kept the

questions to a minimum. The casting phase is typically short and sweet

and lasts up to 8 weeks. From that point on, its shoes/brace time.

This means typically pants/sleepers that snap up the legs and are open

at the feet. Our son loves sleeping in a sleep sack with a long sleeve

onesie on. Our son goes to daycare-has since 12 weeks-so we wanted the

whole shoe experience to be easy on his caretakers-so we went with

pants that snapped up the leg, one pieces that were open at the feet.

Overalls were the best in my opinion!! Hope this helps!

Kathleen

Mom to 8/28/04 bcf dbb 16/7

> Our baby which is due in early November has been diagnosis with

> unilateral club foot on the right foot. We already have one child

and

> I'm trying to figure out what clothes I can purchase for her when

she

> is in the casts. What works and what doesn't? We plan on starting

> treatment within days of her birth.

>

> TIA!

>

> Joline

July 28, 2005

During the casting phase, my daughter was pretty much

able to wear whatever. I actually used a lot of pull

on pants with onesies and little cardigan type of

outfits. Kelsey was born November 7 and here in Ohio

it gets cold so I needed things to be able to keep her

warm. The shoes/bar time were more problematic but

then we just purchased things that would where the

legs would unsnap completely and we could put

everything on over her head. Kelsey was 12 months old

during this phase and it made things more difficult

because they do not make a lot of sleepers etc in this

age range. She absolutely HATED the sleep sack things

and she has an easy tendency to overheat so we avoided

those. I just ended up buying her one piece regular

clothes that she slept in. Good luck with your little

one.

jenni

--- jramals wrote:

> Our baby which is due in early November has been

> diagnosis with

> unilateral club foot on the right foot. We already

> have one child and

> I'm trying to figure out what clothes I can purchase

> for her when she

> is in the casts. What works and what doesn't? We

> plan on starting

> treatment within days of her birth.

>

> TIA!

>

> Joline

>

Jenni-

Mom to (10/31/01) and Kelsey (11/7/03)happy girl in DBB nights only for

left clubfoot.

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July 28, 2005

Dresses! For girls, I think the snaps up the legs is not as important with

boys because they can wear dresses. Plus those outfits just aren't as nice

for girls as for boys, girls just look great in girl clothes even when

they're newborns. (I have two boys already so I was very ready for girl

clothes with my 3rd LOL) Also, I dressed Darbi in a lot of stretch pants

with snap onesies. Used those as jammies too when time for the FAB came

along - that way I didn't have to change her in the am to regular clothes

to take my son to school in. The stretch pants are easy enough to pull

down to the feet and change diapers. But dresses... way easy. You can

put stockings over the casts if it's cold and no one can really tell it's a

cast unless they get real close and touch. Not that it needs to be hidden,

but it's so much easier if you don't have to explain all the time that you

DID NOT break your baby's legs.

Congrats on your new babe and welcome to the list!

Kori

At 01:10 PM 7/27/2005, you wrote:

>Our baby which is due in early November has been diagnosis with

>unilateral club foot on the right foot. We already have one child and

>I'm trying to figure out what clothes I can purchase for her when she

>is in the casts. What works and what doesn't? We plan on starting

>treatment within days of her birth.

>

>TIA!

>

>Joline

>

July 28, 2005