Baby has to wear Pavlic Harness

[Lauralee14]

Hey all,

My baby needs to be fitted for the harness and I'm so upset. The doctor seemed to keep saying " she may developed arthritis in her adult life" " it may cause problems" nothing definite which is frustrating. There's no dislocation, no clicking and they are completely stable on examination. It's only her left hip which is a few degrees under 60 which is the ideal. I know i need to listen to what he doctor says it's just tough.

Has anyone had experience of them? Did the baby mind? What clothes did you have them in? How was travelling in car seat?

Feeling upset and anxious :(

Hi lovely mummy's,

Just wanted to let you all know that Grace had the harness fitted today. She was as good as gold, bit grizzly this afternoon but still giving us lots of smiles and went to bed as usual at 7pm. I'm so surprised how well she is doing.

Xxx

That's great news! Hope she settles well and that you're okay? Don't underestimate how tough it can be going through the process as a parent. Fingers crossed for you

So pleased to hear that it went well and you're sounded much calmer about it all now. Thanks for the update. Best wishes

My 9 week old daughter has been in her harness for 7 weeks now. She has Graf 4 DDH so is fairly bad, left hip worse. We'll find out tomorrow when we can start weaning off.
I think different hospitals recommend different things with regards to clothes, my Physio said dresses & tights are better as she can mover her legs, we've just had to get bigger tights and babygrows. Otherwise I've seen people cut the legs off the tights and just put them on like socks over the harness.
Your daughter will be braver than you are, it bothers me far more that it bothers my DD. She does care at all!

It's much worse for the parents I'm sure. Dd had one at 6 weeks for 3 months. 6 weeks full time and 6 weeks night time only. She is fine now, started school this September and is always running and climbing, you'd never know she was born with virtually no left hip socket. I remember being devastated, but almost don't remember now and so happy it totally mended her. You'll get through it and used to it and in the grand scheme of things it's such a short time when you look back. Be brave, she is fine and will never know. It's quite common in 1st girls so you are not alone :)

Hi, glad it got sorted but I wanted to ask what the angles were and why you had to have a further 6 weeks when it was resolved? I am in the same situation.