So Long Saddle!

Candy Bar was born with hip dysplasia and has since had to wear his "saddle"

For the first 6 months of life CandyBar wore his brace 24/7 unless he was getting a bum change or having a bath.

It was amazing to see him crawl with it on without any problems. I don't have any pictures of that so you'll have to just take my word for it.

After the first 6 months he only had to wear it while he was sleeping which made for a much happier little boy and mommy during the day.

This was the first time we had his hips x-rayed in July 2010. You can see the circled femur bones are small and not formed completely. The hip socket (arrows) are shallow and don't hug around his femur bone.

This is from our visit on Tuesday. His femur heads are much larger and  hip sockets hug around them now.  So after 22 months the Doctor said CandyBar is free and clear! No more Brace!(They also did an ultrasound on Texas' hips to be sure he didn't have it since Daddy and CandyBar did. Guess what he said, Texas has practically perfect hips!) So we are a brace free family! YAY!