Finally home, great result!

[clucks]

I have just posted on c-section thread about this. I delivered my DS2 early Friday morning after my waters going on thurs night whilst on mumsnet. After examination, found to be not dilating/effacing or contracting and with meconium in the waters again, I was advised to have another c/section. It was a very positive experience for me (as almost elective) and I am recovering well.

DS2 is gorgeous but was admitted to neonatal unit for a couple of days and I've been a bit stressed about that, due to v high bilirubin but he escaped a transfusion thankfully.

We are finally home and I should be resting as both DS's are asleep and things are starting to ache now.

thanks to everyone for listening to my whinges in the past few months.

Ghosty, in case Clucks does not get back on here for a few days, postural or positional talipes sounds quite alarming in that "talipes" is also used for congenital club foot. Difference is that pt is usually caused by the baby lying awkwardly in the womb and is quite common. Ds1 had it because he was persistent transverse lie and a friend's baby dd has it because she was sharing her accommodation with a giant fibroid. Pt also almost always responds to basic, gentle physio (stroking the foot into the "right" position and checking there is no impediment to putting it there) and is helped by the baby starting to walk/crawl. Ds is now fine although when tired he still in-toes a tiny bit on the same foot. He was discharged after three sessions of physio. Hopefully the same will happen for Clucks. Unlike "real" talipes it does not usually require surgery.

Congrats Clucks and well done!
My dd had positional talipes and I was advised to massage her feet - Paed showed me how before we left hospital. She had a follow up appointment with the orthopaedics people when she was walking (about 18 months) and it had totally resolved. She had it as she was 9lb12 and a bit cramped in there!

Snap my DS has positional talipes and the hospital went totally over the top I thought - they had him plaster casts which I had to take off each week and then plastic casts that he had to sleep in. By the end of it I wasn't bothering to put his plastic casts on, because he hated them and i was not convinced they were necessary. The talipes corrected itself naturally as he started to become more active...