my high maintance children.

So today Georgia had a follow up appt at Childrens to check on her feet. For those that dont know or remember, Gigi was born with clubbed feet. She is past most of the therpy but wears boots and a bar at night until she is 4 years old. Sounds like a lot but its really nothing and we are all so used to it at this point. Ok so moving on. She also has hip dysplasia. Apparently it runs in families and toms sister had it and so did one of his cousins so its really no surprise. When Gigi's feetie doctor saw that I was pregnant she mentioned wanting to see Lorelei when she was born. So we took Lorelei with us today so that she could be checked out for hip dysplasia.

First of all let me start off by saying I LOVE Dr. Tosi, Georgia's feetie doctor. she is one of those "out there" people, VERY into her work. She wears crocks and barely looks at you when you are in the office cause she is so focused on the child and the feet. She doesnt have a lot of bedside manor due to what she sees everyday. Clubbed feet and hip dysplasia is the least of what she sees everyday. When Gigi was a baby and had to get casts 3 times a week I would just cry and cry as Gigi would cry and scream and Dr. Tosi wouldnt be bothered by any of it. she reminded me that it wasnt painful for her but when your baby is crying nothing helps. So anyways, long story short, Gigis feet look great! THEN she asked to see Lorelei, so I placed her on the table and waited for her to start looking at her hips. But she started messing with her head and neck and said that she noticed the second she walked in that her neck was stiff. It amazes me sometimes that Dr. do that. I had been holding Lorelei the entire time she was checking out Gigis feet but little did I know that the Dr. was watching Lorelei too.

So after a few minutes she informed us that Lorelei has something calling Torticollis. Apparently its from her sitting very low in my pelvis during pregnancy and finding a head position that she liked and basically stayed that way. Well the problem is is that this causes one side of the neck muscles to become very tight while the other is nice and stretched out. This causes her head to turn to one side and her chin up high. We noticed it when she was born and actually asked her Ped. about it but he assured us there was no prob. that she was a little tight but that she would move her head to the other side so he wasnt worried. Tom also noticed that one of her cheeks was bigger/fatter then the other when she was born and apparently its due to that one side being up against something in utero. So our fear was confirmed, she does have this condition but the good news is we caught it early. This means she shouldnt have any head formation issues. Some children end up in the helmets b.c they have favored one side for so long that their poor little head is flatter on one side then the other. So Lorelei will be in physical therepy next week and will hopefully only have ONE visit there since Tom and I have the stretches to do to her neck at home. I will be spending most of my days this week stretching her little neck. that way when we go in they will say she is all better. thats my goal. :)

Another interesting fact about this is that apparently 15% of all children with this condition will also have hip dysplasia and since Gigi has it and two people on Toms side has it, Loreleis chances of having HD is higher. So she will have an ultrasound to check for that at the end of the month. Georgia didnt show signs of this until she was 6 months old so that will prob be the case with Lorelei too.

So we have a lot of doctors appt in the next few months but hey, Im used to it. I did it with Gigi and really this is nothing compared to that. My maternity leave is never calm. haha

I love my girls but man they are high maintance. haha

Here is a good picture of her doing what Im talking about. See how her head turns oddly to the one side.