Baby Kyra’s Tiny Hip Healing Journey

Kyra, our twenty-two-month-old daughter, granddaughter, niece, and cousin, was born with Hip Dysplasia. Kyra was born with her right leg positioned up against her torso, with her right foot touching the right side of her face. It wasn’t easy delivering her like this, but she was ready for the world to meet a happy, smiling and loveable baby girl. 

So, what is Hip Dysplasia in a little girl, twenty-two months old? This is the underdevelopment of the hip joint, where the socket of the hip-and-socket joint is not properly developed. Sometimes it is shallow and sometimes completely dislocated or out of joint. Because Hip Dysplasia is associated with certain syndromes, it can easily lead to hip arthritis and intense pain. It also leads to having one leg shorter than the other, as in Kyra’s situation. This limping ultimately leads to lower back pain, which could also come from the way in which the spine is affected by the movement of the hip joint. For Kyra it is possibly all of the above. 

Because of the position in which Kyra was delivered, the doctors and paed...