Guest guest Posted September 13, 2005 Report Share Posted September 13, 2005 I would like to say thanks to the folks of this board who helped us with getting our daughter Eden to tolerate her dbb at night. Your advice was a life saver. She just had her check up with the specialist at Children's in Boston and he said her feet look so good they are identical to any other flat footed toddler. I am thrilled. We will have to keep using the dbb until she is 5 probably, but it sooooo worth it. It's amazing how rocky it was the first time I found this board for help and now to where it is just part of our routine. An unlooked for blessing is that it keeps her in her crib at night. No climbing out with the bar on! A quick question though, does anyone else's little one have curly toes? This is genetic as well apparantly. Eden does and the doc said that correction might have made them a bit worse. I definitly noticed a difference between one casting to another back when she was a wee one. My son and I both have curly toes (I didn't realize this until I looked) but ours is very slight. The doc says that he'd rather do nothing since the only cure for curly toes is surgery that is pointless and painful. So she'll just have funky toes. He said we'll have to watch though to be sure they don't worsen. If they get too severe, surgery is the only option. Right now just one pinky toe crosses under the other, on the other foot they are just turned in. thanks again, Christa mother to Jes (4) no cf Eden (2) bilateral moderate cf (and curly toes) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 14, 2005 Report Share Posted September 14, 2005 Christa, Yeah on Eden's feet being perfect! Seems a lot of our babes have the curly toes thing, and that they sometimes get worse from being in the shoes all the time. The one thing that our dr. said is that they often grow straighter with time, especially when they stop wearing the shoes. You also want to buy her regular shoes with a roomy toe box. Sometimes taping helps, i.e. you can tape the curly toe to the straight one next to it (if there is one) or if there are particular toes that are more of an issue you can tape them straight with a small piece of a popscicle stick. Hope this helps! > I would like to say thanks to the folks of this board who helped us > with getting our daughter Eden to tolerate her dbb at night. Your > advice was a life saver. She just had her check up with the > specialist at Children's in Boston and he said her feet look so good > they are identical to any other flat footed toddler. I am > thrilled. We will have to keep using the dbb until she is 5 > probably, but it sooooo worth it. It's amazing how rocky it was the > first time I found this board for help and now to where it is just > part of our routine. An unlooked for blessing is that it keeps her > in her crib at night. No climbing out with the bar on! > > A quick question though, does anyone else's little one have curly > toes? This is genetic as well apparantly. Eden does and the doc > said that correction might have made them a bit worse. I definitly > noticed a difference between one casting to another back when she > was a wee one. My son and I both have curly toes (I didn't realize > this until I looked) but ours is very slight. The doc says that he'd > rather do nothing since the only cure for curly toes is surgery that > is pointless and painful. So she'll just have funky toes. He said > we'll have to watch though to be sure they don't worsen. If they get > too severe, surgery is the only option. Right now just one pinky > toe crosses under the other, on the other foot they are just turned > in. > > thanks again, > Christa > mother to Jes (4) no cf > Eden (2) bilateral moderate cf (and curly toes) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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