Pink Spica Cast: Still going

I now understand why every other Spica Cast blog I have found is only half complete. You spend so much time taking care of this stinking cast that you don't have the time to document it. Here's why:

-You have to change your baby at least twice as much as another baby without the cast.
-If your baby has a blowout or a leak up either the front or the back it will take you 45 minutes to an hour for one diaper change.
-Its the saddest part of my day when I have to use the hair dryer on her cast, since the only sound that scares her is the hair dryer.
-If she spits up on her cast you have to cover it with baking powder as soon as you can to keep your baby from smelling like rotten milk
- Its a strange thing lay your baby on the ground and cover her in Antimicrobial Fabreeze, but it works
-Its a huge advantage to have little hands while caring for the spica cast because I can reach way up and way down into the cast to keep her skin from burning or breaking out.
-Once the cast cotton is dirty or wet you have to pull it out very carefully. You don't want to make creases in the remaining cotton that could cause sores on your babies skin. Then you replace that cotton with Always pads. Its very weird to buy a pack of pads for your 5 month old daughter! I was suppossed to get to wait until sometime in her teen years for that shopping trip.
- You become profitent and rigging everything in your house to work with a cast. The high chair, the stroller, the toys ect. It is a great opportunity for creative problem solving!

Here is our home made Spica Cast approved play station.

Georgia is doing very very well in her cast. She doesn't mind it all these days and the shape of the cast fits perfectly on my hip. We get a cast change in two weeks in the OR where she will need to be put under full anesthesia again. It should be a easier day and a shorter procedure.

We are right at the half way point. We've made it this far, we are going to be able to make it all the way.