Surprisingly, Hannah hasn’t really complained much about her new ankle/foot braces. I was expecting a bit of a fight, but nope, it hasn’t happened!
She does fight, however, when I put the stride-right size 4-1/2 extra wide shoes over her SureStep orthotics. We are going to have to look out for other shoes because those just are so klunky! Also, I think going from being barefoot and wearing socks all the time to trying out these big clown-like shoes (with the stride-rites on) totally throws her off.
She probably feels like she has weights on her foot!
They are really cute, actually. They have pink, purple, and yellow flowers on them with a pink velcro strap. Hopefully, these will last for about 4 months (so we were told).
She is to eventually wear them all day long except for naps and sleep time. But until then, the first day is two hours on two separate occasions, then three hours on two separate occasions, four hours on two separate occasions, etc.
The orthopedic specialist puts them on her for the first time
She doesn't seem to mind them one bit! (Yet!)
Too cute– like the new duds!
~Jess
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Cute new shoes Hannah!
You might want to give Crocs (those rubbery sandal things) a try. They often fit over over AFOs etc and they weigh nothing at all.
or try pedi peds or shoes with really leatherish soles – much lighter and most kids prefer to start of with light shoes like that until they get used to someting on their feet – both mine did. Forget the orthotics, shoes are weird when you wear them for the first time! Even Target has inexpensive imitation leather shoes that have elastic at the ankle – maybe give those a try? would be in the baby section, not the shoe section.
Very cute shoes..love your yellow dress too 🙂
Have you looked into Preschoolians? I like them even better than PediPeds. PediPeds my son seemed to have traction issues. He loved his preschoolians (he didn’t have AFO’s but they are known to be wide shoes. You can take out the soles of them to make them wider or narrower. I would guess that you could just leave the soles out and let the AFO be to sole.
She seems so happy!
Such a beautiful girl! She’s changing her look!
It’s always surprised me that Alex never minds his braces. Sometimes I’ll give him the option of wearing them or crocs (to give him a break…relax a little), and he’ll ask for them instead. Who knew!
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