Re: Bruising of the feet and sleeping at night with bar

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Hi Tracey!

Welcome to the group and congrats on your daughter!

When you say that her feet are purple, is this all over and does it

fade a bit during your hour out? Do you notice that her feet are cold

at all when you take the shoes off? Just wondering if the cold may

have something to do the the color. It is common for the feet to be

somewhat red after 23hr wear. It was explained to me by our orthotist

who is just awesome (has a rcf herself) that anyone wearing tight

fitting leather shoes would have red feet after so many hours wearing

them, esp a baby with such soft skin.

But actual bruising hmmm, here is the link to join the CFPics group

this group allows you to send pics, could you possibly take a pic of

her feet so that we could take a look, don't like the sounds of that

(bruising) there is a short survey that needs to be filled out and

returned, here's the link

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/CFPics/

Our daughter had this redness too, sometimes the outline of a

particular area of the shoe would be noticable when we took them off

too. She also had red spots on the top of her feet from the strap

that didn't go away really until the last couple of months.

The redness never seemed to bother her much and it did fade slightly

during our hour out and as we reduced hours, it got much much better,

she now has no redness/marks on her feet at all =).

My advise would be to just keep an eye on it. As long as you don't

see any blisters or potential sores forming, all should be fine, you

are almost half way through =). The 23/7 was definately the hardest

part of the treatment for us but looking back now that she is 18 mos,

it seems that it flew by.

As for her fussiness, well, babies change their sleeping patterns at

the drop of a hat, are you nursing? Does she calm down right away

when you pick her up and feed her? Grace wanted to eat At Least every

3 hours until she was 5 or 6 mos and would get super mad if the 'nur'

wasn't there on demand the little chunk lol. She also went through a

really gassy (super duper fussy) period at about 3 mos, I gave her

both Gripe and Oval but found that the Oval worked much better than

the Gripe.

HTH some.

Smiles,

& Grace 18 mos

unilateral rcf FAB (foot abduction brace/dbb) 13 hrs

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> Hi,

>

> I'm new to the group - it's great to see that there is a support

> group to talk to since we are basically on our own now that our

> daughter is wearing the denis-brown shoes and bar.

>

> Our daughter is 3 months old now, and basically adjusted at the

> beginning to the shoes and the bar with only 2 nights of interupted

> sleep....however

> now, after 3 weeks of wearing the shoes and bar, we noticed last

> week that her feet were almost purple when we took off the shoes

for

> her 1 hour a day. Touching her feet, she didn't seem to be

> experiencing any pain. As of the beginning of this week, she is

now

> waking up frequently during the night (after having done her nights

> for over 5 weeks straight).

> We called the hospital and had felts put into the tongue of the

> shoes, but were told that the bruising could be caused by the shoes

> either being too tight or too loose (very helpful).

>

> We're not sure if she has begun to wake up (crying) during the

night

> due to pain in her feet, nor what to do if the bruising doesn't go

> away after a few days.

>

> Has anyone experienced the same thing ? Any suggestions or

> solutions?

> Any advice would be appreciated..

>

>

> Thanks!

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