So, when Lauren was born, she was kind of curved, to the right. I think she sat like that in me, as she was breech, he head at the top near my lungs, so were her feet (fortunately she came out looking ‘normal’ and not with her feet still near her head!!), so she will have been curved round all my insides.

We thought she would just straighten up as time went on, but then after all our news I became a little bit anxious. After meeting the CDC staff we were referred to orthopaedics, they sent us for X-rays and the results were that she also had a slightly dislocated hip. Sigh!! For real???!?!?!?!?! (insert scream here !)

So we were sent home with this…

You can’t quite see the little boots that are attached, they hooked up to the straps across her body and stopped her from straightening her leg. She had about 2 months with this thin on night and day (may have been longer, I forget now!). It helped set her hip back in place and her final x-rays showed all was well.

I cried when we first put that on. I wanted a normal life, with no ridiculous problems and my baby to not have to put up with so much crap. But, alas I was not to have that.

The good news was it didn’t bother her. It just bothered me. Maybe Jonnie (you’d have to ask him!) And second good news was that it worked. This problem was solved! Shout out for Mr Tang!