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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!