Just fine the way I am

Today we had an appt at Gillette Children's Hospital for a consult regarding Hailey's bowed legs.

We first noticed the bowing when she started walking around 12 months.

At that time it was easy to chalk it up to thick diapers and chubby legs/thighs but as time went on and she started slimming down, the legs were still bowing.  Sometimes when she would walk you could actually see her walk on the outside of her foot.

At her 15 month check up I asked Dr Prall about them.  He saw what we were concerned about, wasn't too concerned himself but also didn't want to overlook anything so we took an Xray and based upon those results decided to wait until her 18 month check up and check again.

At the 18 month check up we decided that even though she was looking like she was improving there was still a curve that we knew we should check out.

Even though I can see that her legs are bowed I have a hard time admitting it (to an extent).

I mean after all, that little girl is so adorable who cares about some crooked legs- you can hardly tell.

Well, I thought you could hardly tell but people comment on them all the time.

Her appt went great.  We saw Sarah Gutknecht at Gillette.  She meet with us, took a mini-history, examed her looking for strength, range of motion, etc.  We took new Xrays (on the left) and then met again to talk through the next steps.

Good news- she thinks that this will work itself out as Hailey grows.  She could not come to any conclusion that this was a genetic-disease or problem that was causing this.  Bones do not contain any defects.  She did not feel that there was any type of intervention that we needed to think about doing.

Only directions were to start a multi-vitamin to increase her Vitamin K level and follow up in 6 months.

(cutest little bowed legs you ever did see, right?!)