Our Newborn Daughter

On March 1, 2010, our daughter, Kayla Adrianna Brewer, was born via C-Section. Kayla weighed 7 pounds and 5 ounces and was 22 and 1/4 inches long. It was a very happy day. The morning Kayla was born the pediatrician came to see her for her newborn evaluation and what he found shocked both my husband and I. He informed us that Kayla's left leg was shorter than her right leg and he wanted to send her for x -rays to rule out Hip Dysplasia. If I remember correctly the Dr. didn't come back in to see us until the next day, leaving us with a whole day of worry that seemed like an eternity. When he finally came back in, he told us that the x-rays ruled out hip dysplasia but he found that she had a congenital birth defect. Her Femur and Tibia in her left leg were both 1 centimeter shorter than the Femur and Tibia in her right leg leaving her with a 2 centimeter leg length discrepancy. He went on to tell us that he had seen this kind of thing before and when she got older and at walking age she would have to have a shoe lift to compensate for the leg length discrepancy and this was nothing to worry about, and even though he said that it was nothing to worry about we were still devastated. After being told about the birth defect, Mike and I looked at her little leg to see if we could make any sense of what was happening and what we were told. While looking at her leg we noticed that not only was her little leg shorter but her ankle also had something wrong with it. It just did not look like the other ankle did and my gut feeling was that she had more wrong with her little leg than what the Dr. was realizing so the day we were supposed to be released from the hospital I called the x-ray department and had them to make me a copy of her x-rays and I sent Mike after them because I wanted to see them for myself.