Multiple Clubfoot
Families
----- Original Message -----
From: lost737370
To: nosurgery4clubfoot@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 1:02 PM
Subject: [nosurgery4clubfoot] chances of a second child with CF


    Does anyone know what the chances of having a second child with
    Clubfoot?  I'm really not taking it very well and I'm scared if my husband
    and I  have another child it will have the same problem. I've already told
    him I don’t want any more children because of this reason.

    (No name given)

    From :shawnee
    To: nosurgery4clubfoot@yahoogroups.com
    Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 4:09 PM
    Subject: [nosurgery4clubfoot] chances of a second child with CF


    Oh dear Lost737370 whomever you are, my heart goes out to you and
    there is a million things I want to say but alas where would I
    begin?

    Let me begin with Everett Mark, my resident little 2 year old elf
    with yellow hair and a big round pot belly who does clown tricks and
    sings goofy little Bop-Bop songs and tries to ride his car naked
    like a skate board and squints up his little eyes with is toy gun
    yelling Pow Pow and falling over when we shoot back with our fingers
    and he slithers on his belly saying Snake Snake Snake attacking our
    feet and gargles his milk and eats hot sauce with his corn chips and
    calls everything sweet "Cake"........the little man who keeps us
    rolling with laughter in such ways as we never imagined and fills a
    void in our hearts that we didn't now existed until he
    arrived !!!!

    Everett is my 2nd son to be born with Club Foot and I cannot
    imagine life with out him, club footed and all.

    Brian is my oldest. He is 7 year old. He was born with club
    foot, also, and at the time it did seem like the end of the world,
    but it wasn't. Today Brian is my Brainiac child, as serious in
    nature as Everett is clown-ish.

    And in March, some where around March 1st, I am expecting my 3rd
    son....and he will be born with his brother's kiss of two crooked
    feet. And already I know this child who hiccups and rolls about
    inside of me and who gets excited when I eat and likes me to play
    Big Band music through the little head-set I wear around my every
    growing belly for him to listen to. Already I cannot imagine life
    with out him, either - nor life with out his two clubbed feet.

    Now this all sounds wonderfully sugar coated, so let me add my
    little disclaimer to all this: When Brian was born, I was very
    upset and hurt and confused but eventually you learn the child is
    not a Case Of Club Foot. He is your child, your flesh and blood, a
    living breathing soul and what the hell is a couple crooked feet in
    the scheme of things?

    And with Everett - crap I said, another set of club feet but OH
    well....we got it taken care of.

    Then recently as a few days ago I learned #3 here also has
    club foot and I bawled my eyes out mad at the world for about a day
    and then it was, "OH WELL" again because these are my children and I
    love them because after all, What's not to love? Would I turn ANY
    of them away? Oh God no.

    Club foot isn't the end of the world, it's not a shame, it's not a
    crime, it's not a death sentence nor even life in prison because
    there is a wonderful old man named Dr. Ponseti who figured out it
    didn't have to be a life-sentence and through his work, our children
    quickly recover and that's just all there is to it. It's one or
    both feet that grew a little funky in the womb then you go get them
    fixed and before they start Kindergarten the whole thing is ancient
    history that you seldom think about anymore.

    So what if you have another? Chances are greater that you
    won't. Having more than one is sort of a freak accident, but ask
    yourself truly, so what if you do have another one? Would you
    trade in your first child knowing it had club foot? Hardly. So why
    trade in his sibling? What is it exactly you're really afraid of?
    And do you not trust the Good Lord to bless your family through the
    experience of it ? Honey, God doesn't make junk. Your child is
    perfect, as will be any other children you might conceive.

    shawnee
This is the Multiple Clubfoot Families Page - where
those of us blessed with more than one child with the
clubfoot condition may brag, share, and realize we're
really not freaks of nature after all!

Below I have posted a letter that came in to the
Nosurgery4clubfoot group a couple years ago that
simply broke my heart - and below that, my reply to this
poor, grieving woman who stole my heart that day.  

I have posted it here in hopes that no family ever feels
as threatened by clubfoot as she did....  As far as birth
defects go, it's one of the easiest in the world to
diagnose and correct - and one of the very few that can
be 100% corrected 95% of the time.  

Grow your family, love your family - crooked feet or not.
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The Sanders Family with their three
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