RE: Bracing time with a walker/older child

April 18, 2004

Hi Kori-

My son is 2 (25 months) and in the DBB for 12 hours a day too. We don't put

them on for naps because he is the second born and we aren't home always for

nap time. We do it as a nightime routine. My son sleeps about 10-11 hours.

We usually gain the rest of the time by putting them on after bath time

(bedtime bath) and during books or he sits and watches a video after bath

before bed. My son is diagnosed loose jointed and had a mild left foot. I

used to be a slave by the clock (to make sure he was getting the exact hours

in) now I don't. We just make it part of the routine. Somedays he might get

a little less than 12 hours and some days a little more. My son actually

fights me often and doesn't want me to take them off in the morning now. He

loves to try and teeter back and forth on them and thinks it is a game to

crawl with them on too. I try and not make it a big deal, so it never

becomes a big deal to my son either. I think as they get older the key is

being consistant that the shoes go on when the child goes to sleep at night.

Just my two cents!

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>Reply-To: nosurgery4clubfoot

>To: nosurgery4clubfoot

>Subject: Bracing time with a walker/older child

>Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 08:46:47 -0700

>

>As some may remember - Darbi has been walking for about 2 mo's now. She's

>12.5mo's old. About the time she started walking I dropped her time in the

>DBB to 12 hours. Dr. Sussman had told me at her last appointment in Sept.

>that she could just wear them while sleeping. Well he'd told me before

>that I didn't need to have her in them 18, 16 and then 14 hours but I

>pretty much kept with the protocol Dr. Ponseti prescribes because it seemed

>to make sense and couldn't hurt. Every time I told her Dr. she was in them

>longer than he'd told us he always said she didn't need to. For whatever

>it's worth, her foot has always been considered mild and very corrected and

>supple.

>

>So when she started walking I didn't think it was fair to make her crawl

>around for an extra 2-3 hours every morning and dropped her to about 12

>hours from 14. I try to get 12 in every day - sometimes though she wakes

>at 7am which leaves her with an hour to crawl around with the DBB on to get

>to the 12. Dr. Sussman keeps telling me she just has to wear them whenever

>she sleeps. So occasionally I let her out at around the 11 hour mark. Not

>often - but sometimes the morning with getting kids ready for school and

>all that stuff (or when she's wearing pink and I haven't mopped the

>hardwoods recently enough hehe) I let her out early. Typically when she

>gets out early it's at about the 11.5 hour mark.

>

>My question is - how many of you who are at this point - who also don't do

>naps - continue DBB wear during waking hours making your older child crawl

>for that time? I am really interested in the much older children - how do

>you make a nearly 4 year old wear the DBB and crawl around to get the

>required time in? Or do you? Darbi doesn't care one way or the other - I

>think she's starting to get to the point where she is interested in me

>taking them off in the morning - she sits there patiently waiting for me to

>untie them and pulls her feet out herself. She almost always goes to sleep

>at 8pm, but rarely sleeps till 8am unless she goes to sleep around 9. So

>her sleeping hours average about 10.5 or 11 hours regularly.

>

>love to hear comments. Thanks!

>

>Kori

>Mama of

>Kenton - 6/98

>Merek - 3/00

>Darbi - 3/28 - Rt. CF - DBB 14hr/d

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April 18, 2004