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Hi I've recently joined the group and find this site to be comforting

and informative. It's a great support system. Just as soon as I get

the time and figure out how to, I will send a picture.

My name is and my husband is Tony. We live in Poughkeepsie, NY

and we have 12 1/2 month old daughter named Kayla. She was born

breech with slight hip displesia. She has been wearing the Pavoloc

Harness since day 2. She's had numerous x-rays, the latest back in

September. I was disappointed to find that her hips were at 30

degrees and 26 degrees. Our ortho told us babies hips are born at 30

degrees and for her age should be in the low 20s. I feel it has done

nothing but my doctor is optomistic and says she is progressing fine

and doesn't feel she will need surgery. We go back in March for an

x-ray and pray it correcting her hips.

We are not sure whether Kayla was born with the torticollis but we had

not discovered it until she was a few months old. We did the PT

sessions authorized by the insurance co. and that was it. Later we

had to change ortho's because of insurance reasons and the new ortho

was very concerned more with the tort that the hip displesia and order

PT sessions 3x a week. She told us about the Early Intervention

program the state offers. She now as therapy sessions every other

week (we do the exercises daily on our own) where the therapist comes

to our home and EI picks up the cost. The program allows the PT until

the child is age 3. Hopefully the problem will be corrected by then.

Around two months of age, we noticed the flat spot on Kayla's head.

As I am sure like the rest of you, we became quite alarmed and had her

examined by our ped and had her head x-rayed. They say everything is

fine (of course) these docs annoy me sometimes. But we weren't

satisfied so we took her to a neurologist. She said the flat spot

will go away and that there are no neurological problems. They did

not feel she needed the helmut.

Now about 3 weeks ago, we noticed a lump on one of nipples. We

immediately took her to our ped and got two conflicting opinions with

1/2 an hour. Last week Kayla had her 1 year checkup and I had the

doctor (another one in the group) look at it. He says it's probably a

cyst but to keep an eye on it. I was wondering if anyone else has any

thought or opinions on this.

Wishing you all a new year with better health and much happiness.