To better illustrate this, here are some pictures. I don't have really amazing pictures of the before, because I didn't realize what was going on. So here are a few, and they are both old ones! I didn't realize how long this had been a problem.
If you look closely, you can see that her left leg is kind of at a funny angle. At the time I just thought, yeah, she is a baby, they sit funny. However, I didn't notice that her left leg was ALWAYS up like that and much higher than her right leg. As a result, her left leg grew faster to compensate, making her left leg 1/2" longer than her right.
Here is another before. At the time I just thought it was super cute that she would sleep while holding her foot. But it wasn't really normal that her leg was always up so high. The problems were more obvious while she was relaxed and sleeping.
This is her leg after her first OMT appointment. I mean, could you see a bigger difference?
This is her at her appointment today. Look, she can sit up!
Oh, and a great bonus to all of this is, with the OMT helping realign her hips, and because we found this problem so early, her right leg has caught up! Just like her left leg grew more because her hips were tilted, and as they straightened out, her right leg grew more to even out.
She still can't roll over, and she doesn't seem close to crawling at all, but surgery is no longer in our plan! So excited for this little girl!
2 comments:
Congratulations! That is fantastic news!
Wooo hoo!! That's just so fab!
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