19 Month Old Hip Dysplasia Worry

[Keggles36]

Just wondering if anyone has had similar experience/has any advice.

DD had very mild hip dysplasia diagnosed as a newborn. She went into a Pavlik harness for 8 weeks, with good improvement seen every two weeks, back to normal angles at 6 weeks and an extra two weeks just to ensure stability etc.

She is now 19 months old and had a routine xray the other day - which showed that the right hip acetabular angle is 29 degrees and the right is 24.

The doctor told us she'll watch and wait and the fact she's been walking for about 3 months now will only improve things. They want to xray again in 6 months with a weight bearing xray to see if she needs surgery.

I guess I'm just wondering if this sounds right? I've read up and these angles seem very high, they should be 22 or under at her age. I'm worried walking (her right ankle rolls in and toes turn out, which puts pressure on hip joints) might just make things worse.

I absolutely want to avoid surgery if possible, but is it just going to get worse if we just wait and see?

My friend just had surgery for this at 35. She wished she had had it younger to stop the problem developing and getting worse into adulthood. Don’t think she was properly diagnosed until she was a teenager.

I had never hears of hip dysplasia in humans before - I thought it was something only dogs got!

I was born with hip dysplasia, only found when I was 1 as they didn't routinely screen or check hips for it. I spent time on traction in hospital & then 6 months in a spica cast, my hips still hadn't gone back & I was listed for surgery to pin both hips. In preparation for this my parents were told to put me in a bed as I would be too big with the casts to sleep in a cot, I fell out every night. When they took me down for surgery & had got me knocked out they did an xray only to find falling out of bed every night had put both hips back in the sockets. My parents turned up expecting to have to wait hours for me to return from theatre to find a very green looking me sat up in bed demanding food, instead of being in hospital for weeks I was on my way home that afternoon. I walked for the first time 2 weeks later.