3 year old-questions, questions, questions!

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Hi everyone! My son Jaren who turned 3 today is still in his brace

at night. He was treated since birth with a " modified " Ponseti

method-the dr. kept him in the brace 23/7 until he was walking. (Dr.

P did see my son when he was 11 months old-he said he looked great.)

Our dr. said about 6 months or so ago that he could stop wearing the

brace; that Jaren's foot looked great, no probs, etc. I still wanted

him to wear the brace so I got the dr. to prescribe another set of

shoes. The lab guy said that this was the biggest set of shoes he

could get, and now they are too small. I know I posted before about

bigger shoes and someone replied about I believe it was the

shoe. Can anyone give me more info about this? I know the dr. was

not too happy the last time I asked for bigger shoes because he said

they were not necessary, and I told him about the recent findings in

IA about older children relapsing. Am I being overprotective by

wanting him to stay in the shoes? Could I possibly be doing him more

harm than good?

I know I need to make another appt. with our dr. because Jaren has

recently started to kind of limp on his right foot (clubfoot). He

says it doesn't hurt or anything, but I am concerned. His foot does

not seem to be turning in or anything, but he is still walking kind

of goofy-he doesn't do it all the time either. He runs fine-it's

just the walking sometimes. Anyway, if someone can arm me with some

good info for some bigger shoes I will feel better when we see the

doc.

Thanks!

-Kim

Jaren 4/18/02 uni cf