Baby just started with Ponseti- general questions.

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Hi all,

My son was born on April 14 with one club foot. Fortunately we knew

beforehand and I was able to seek out the one dr in The Netherlands

that performs the Ponseti Method fully. He's already on his second

cast and I've been pretty happy with the dr so far. When they took the

cast off, however, he got scratched up pretty good (and screamed

plenty loud) in the area where the cast was tightest :-(. Is that

normal? They took the cast off with a pliers kind of thing and then

pried it off. We were able to give him a bath in the maternity ward of

the hospital where the casting is being done.

Do they do any kind of measuring during the casting normally? So far,

the dr felt that the first casting went really well. The brace is the

foot abduction brace and there's someone that goes around the

hospitals in the area distributing braces. That sounds odd to me but I

suppose the braces are the same for the various methods?

Joyce