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	<title>Spica Casts</title>
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	<description>Information and Support Group for Parents Who Have Children with Hip Problems</description>
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		<title>Update on Natalie and Lilie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Natalie and Lilie have not been to the doctor in a while, but every check up has been extremely positive. We are pleased with the progress. Both Lilie and Natalie seem to be progressing well. With Natalie being in Kindergarten this year, she comes home talking about how she played on the playground and done [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Such a Comforting Place</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week we had a little scare. My wife finally had our fourth child and finally a boy, Caleb is his name. He was born on May 12, 2010. Caleb has been a good little baby other than he has a little bit of acid reflux and so he has been trying to eat a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Natalie&#8217;s Doing Great</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Natalie recently turned 4. She is growing up so fast and she has no problems keeping up with other kids her own age. You can not tell that she has ever had any kind of surgery or condition. She is getting ready to play her first season of indoor soccer. She is very excited about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lilie&#8217;s Progress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lilie is doing very well in her brace. She has made a lot of progress in the last month. She is now playing in the floor on her own. She can sit up just fine in and out of the brace. She actually likes being more independent. I think a lot of it has to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lilie&#8217;s Cast Removal</title>
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On January 13,2010, Lilie got to have her cast off. She was in her cast for a total of 10 weeks. She made enough progress during the 10 weeks that her doctor felt that she did not have to stay in it for a full 12 like her sister. She was put into a hip [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spica Cast Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Well, we finally got Lilie in for her cast change and actually received better news than we had expected. Originally, we thought we would be waiting until about February to get her cast totally off and changed to a brace. However, the doctor scheduled January 13th as the big day for getting her last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spicacasts.com/news/spica-cast-change-2/</link>
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		<title>How to Get Prepared for Your Child in a Spica Cast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sorry, I know this is pretty lengthy. Unfortunately, we felt like when we were writing this that none of these things could be left out because they are all so important. We hope it is very informative, none the less.
What to Bring To the Hospital
I would not worry about bringing too much to the hospital [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Had a Better Experience This Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last time we had to go through with surgery on Natalie we had a pretty hard time. Natalie was constantly waking up and would cry every 5 minutes (no exaggeration). They would give her pain medication and would tell us that it could just be an affect of the anesthesia. We didn&#8217;t really think much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spicacasts.com/tips-and-tricks/we-had-a-better-experience-this-time/</link>
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		<title>Things are looking down!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, right after we had some relatively good news it was torn down this week with news that Lilie&#8217;s hip still isn&#8217;t looking quite right. My wife saw the x-rays and said that even she could see a difference in her right and her left. The doctor may think that she just has a ligament [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spicacasts.com/news/things-are-looking-down/</link>
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		<title>Things are Looking Up!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unfortunately Lilie is still in a brace like Natalie was when she got her spica cast off. However, the good news is that we think her hip is in place. The primary purpose of the brace is simply to give the muscles around the hip time to heal up and strengthen so that her hip [...]]]></description>
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