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Hip brace buggy question

  • 10-10-2018 08:50PM
    #1
    fall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 926 ✭✭✭


    Hi, my friends little girl who is seven months old needs a hip brace but now she doesn't fit in her buggy or car seat. Any one any advice or recommendations? Thanks


Comments

  • #2
    Daisy 55
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 521 ✭✭✭Daisy 55


    We put a biscuit tin (padded!) underneath.


  • #3
    fall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 926 ✭✭✭fall


    I'm the buggy?


  • #4
    LittleWhiteDog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43 ✭LittleWhiteDog


    The britax two way elite car seat should work for babies in a hip brace. It has very low sides, not sure if it is suitable for 7 month olds, in car safety centre have a website & are brilliant for advice on car seats.


  • #5
    Daisy 55
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 521 ✭✭✭Daisy 55


    Yes. The problem was that the y shape of the legs was too wide, so it lifted her high enough that the legs were above the sides? Hard to explain!


  • #6
    fall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 926 ✭✭✭fall


    Hi Daisy, I get what you are saying. I think she went up a size in brace today so I don't even know if that would work. Thanks for the responses so far.


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  • #7
    2xj3hplqgsbkym
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    I don’t know, but I wonder would putting an inflatable car seat in buggy help?


  • #8
    sillysocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,652 ✭✭✭sillysocks


    This might be worth her looking at....
    I think I remember reading that In Car Safety in Belfast also provide some kind of service for babies in casts.

    http://www.maxi-cosi.com/ie-en/service/hip-safety-service.aspx#


  • #9
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,405 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    I can't be helpful about buggies as its a long time ago since my daughter was in a hip spica ! But a warning from me , be very careful putting her into a shopping trolly ! I got my daughter into the seat but then found I couldn't get her out again and needed two men in Superquinn to pull apart the metal and get her out !

    My solution back then was to swap my buggy with a friends as she could fit in hers and not in my own ! Maybe a friends buggy will suit your baby better ?


  • #10
    Wexy86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 443 ✭✭Wexy86


    My girl went into a brace at 8 months. My out and about nipper still worked grand and I moved her into her joie stages for the car seat. Brittax TWE or Maxi cosi opal are recommended for hip braces/spica but I found the stages fine, that was for a medium size brace


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