Today's guest is Maureen, and she found out at her 20 week ultrasound that her daughter had clubfoot. She shares what families have to endure when confronted with a child with clubfoot. You'll hear about B and B (boots and bar), serial casting, surgeries, doctors' visits, and the amount of parent intervention that has to take place in the first four to five years of these kids' lives.
In this episode, we talk about…
[2:07] Maureen's family and background
[4:53] Getting a clubfoot diagnosis in utero
[11:39] Processing her daughter's clubfoot diagnosis
[13:28] Medical treatment for clubfoot
[17:14] Handling the stress of her daughter's diagnosis
[23:32] The parental workload involved with clubfoot maintenance and treatment
[26:34] Maureen's advice for other parents going through the boots and bar scenario
[30:05] Sleep challenges related to clubfoot
[31:52] Treatment since the boots and bar
[34:35] Maureen's book: Clubfoot Chronicles
[40:27] What Maureen's daughter has taught her through this experience
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Meet the host:
Katie Taylor is the co-founder and CEO of Child Life On Call, a digital platform designed to provide parents, kids, and the care team with access to child life services tools and resources. She is a certified child life specialist with over 13 years of experience working in various pediatric healthcare settings. Katie is the author of the children's book, and has presented on the topics of child life and entrepreneurship, psychosocial care in the hospital, and supporting caregivers in the NICU setting both nationally and internationally. She is also the host of the Child Life On Call Podcast which features interviews with parents discussing their experiences throughout their child's medical journey. The podcast emphasizes the crucial role of child life services in enabling caregivers both at and beyond the bedside.
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