Re: How long to adjust to the shoes?

[Guest guest]

We aren't sure why she got the sore. The cast wasn't wet or anything.

We had the shoes on for several hours yesterday. (Until the family

Christmas, there are over 100 people and we just didn't want to deal

with the questions.) We put her back in them after it and she had

them on until 4:00 this morning. They really seemed to be bothering

her so we took them off then. We soaked her foot this morning and

she's back in them again and we'll keep them on as long as possible.

We go back in two weeks and it may be necessary to recast for a

week. We shall see. We'll keep her in them as much as possible. At

this point, it's just hard to tell when they hurt her or just make

her mad. But her foot looks tons better so I think within a day or

two we will have them on the full 23 hours.

Thanks for the tip. I will help her she we are playing. We've worked

out the nursing for the most part so that's good. We are also

getting much better at getting her shoes on her feet.

We do know how important the shoes are. If it wasn't for the sore,

we would be keeping them on the full time. Our doc. said to do the

best we could, but not to aggravate her foot any more. But like I

mentioned, it looks so much better now.

Thanks!

Joline

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> It will help your girl learn to tolerate the shoes if you help her

learn how to move her feet in unison, rather than her natural

tendency to kick them seperately. Do this by holding the bar in the

center while she's laying down and moving it up and down, bending

her legs together in a playful fashion. Most babies catch on pretty

quick, I mean in a few days anyway and that aliviates a lot of their

aggrivation while also helping to prevent sores by the friction

created moving them seperately at this time.

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> How did she end up with a sore in her cast? Those first few days

in the FAB are pretty critical (in my opinion, anyway) - this is

when the baby is used to having their legs bound up anyway in a

cast, but once they get a taste of freedom out of both casts and FAB

it just gets harder to convince them to go back to bondage. I don't

mean make her suffer with a sore hurting her, but do be aware that

she will also quickly learn that throwing a fit will get that

contraption off her feet whether they are honestly hurting or not,

kwim?

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> If this continues you might want to consider having her put in a

healing-cast to hold her correction until she is able to wear the

shoes 23 hours like she should.

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> Or, after the sore heals it may become necessary to recast her

once or twice to regain correction lost now when she can't wear the

FAB before starting over with the FAB. Maybe not, but it something

to keep in mind if she can't wear either a cast or the FAB right now.

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> Merry Christmas and I hope it gets better for you both!

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> s.

> How long to adjust to the shoes?

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> My daughter Kiera, got her shoes on Thursday. She's had them on

for

> short periods of time since because her foot has a very large

sore

> from her last cast. We are to put them on as we can without

> aggravating her foot. We put them on last night with the

intention of

> leaving them on as long as possible. They made her so angry that

we

> finally removed them and decided to put them on in the morning.

She's

> had them on for a few hours and is doing pretty well with them,

but

> when we are nursing they can really make her mad. Is this

normal? When

> will she be able to move them around? She's 8 weeks old now so

her

> muscles aren't that developed.

>

> TIA!

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> Merry Christmas!

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[Guest guest]

She had a series of 5 casts. Our doc. is Ponseti approved so the

last cast was the holding cast. We didn't need to cut her achilles

tendon as it has enough flexibility. The last cast was turned out

and up the 15%. So what she needs for the shoes. I'll see if we can

put up some pictures. She's staying in the shoes okay and her foot

looks good enough that we should be able to keep them on almost the

whole time.

I'll see what we can get up.

Thanks!

Joline

> >My daughter Kiera, got her shoes on Thursday. She's had them on

for

> >short periods of time since because her foot has a very large sore

> >from her last cast. We are to put them on as we can without

> >aggravating her foot. We put them on last night with the

intention of

> >leaving them on as long as possible. They made her so angry that

we

> >finally removed them and decided to put them on in the morning.

She's

> >had them on for a few hours and is doing pretty well with them,

but

> >when we are nursing they can really make her mad. Is this normal?

When

> >will she be able to move them around? She's 8 weeks old now so her

> >muscles aren't that developed.

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> >TIA!

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> >Merry Christmas!

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