The End of a Difficult Few Months
Last Thursday, my little girl had her Spica Cast taken off! As regular readers will know, my daughter has Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip and had an operation in March […]
Category Archives: Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip
Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip: How to Care for a Child in a Spica Cast
Eight weeks ago my little girl was diagnosed with Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip and following an operation, she was put into a Spica Cast. Though it has been difficult […]
Tomorrow: Spica Cast Change and a Halfway Point
Tomorrow my little girl is going into Bristol Children’s Hospital to have a new Spica Cast. Regular readers of Bishopston Mum will know that my daughter has Developmental Dysplasia of […]
Operation Day
The day of my daughter’s operation arrived and my husband and I awoke at 6 am, tired and anxious. Our nerves had not been helped by a phone conversation with […]
Preparing for My Little Girl’s Operation
If you are a regular reader of ‘Bishopston Mum’, you will know that my 15-month-old daughter was recently diagnosed with Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip. Her left hip is dislocated […]
My Little Girl and Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip
I am sat here, scratching these first words of a draft into my notebook at 4am, unable to sleep. Words have been flying round my brain in a jumbled, tangled […]
Bishopston Mum 