Finally emailed Dr Dobbs

About our follow up. Last summer, Dr Dobbs had said that odds were good E would not need revision surgery, but if he would need it, it would need to happen before he turned 3. Well, that's October, so I sent Dr Dobbs an email with pictures of E's foot fully flexed and video of him walking and standing. He's ordering us some x-rays, but he said things look good and he does not think E will need follow up surgery. YAY! Now we just need to figure out when he can come out of the brace at nap and nighttime. That's going to be our holdup for potty training overnight (life goes on, even with bracing, right?). Oh, and I totally recommend Oh Crap! Potty Training by Jamie Glowaki. She's a genius.

I'm not so good at blogging when real life happens, apparently

Just wanted to drop in an update - between the move to a new house, the third trimester of pregnancy, and the first 2 months of newborn life, I fell off of the wagon again on blogging. We ended up not buying the Dobbs bar and just bought a new pair of shoes for E's Denis Brown bar. We decided that he was used to the lack of mobility, it was correcting the problem, and there was no need to change courses on that at this late in the game (totally would recommend pushing for the Dobbs bar when you're starting though!). We're actually far enough along now that my hubby is pushing me to email Dr. Dobbs about this summer. I'm feeling confident in where E's foot is that we won't be needing the revision surgery and castings this summer, but he wants me to shoot some video of E's foot and send it to Dr. Dobbs to get his opinion on whether or not we should bring him back for a hands on examination. The flexibility in the right foot is pretty close to the left now, and when he's walking we forget which foot it was that had the surgery - both with shoes off and on. His gait is normal, even from my perspective. We are so very thankful for how well he's healed, especially when I think about how bad his foot could have been. We do still do the exercises, and he still wears the bar at nap time and at night (another question for me to ask Dobbs when I email him - no idea how long we should stick with that, but I think transitioning E to a big boy bed will be difficult if his feet are still braced together). But things are slowly calming down again around here.