Jades Story

Tell me a bit about you? I’m Jade, I’m a mum of 3 from Yorkshire. I have a 5 year old son, and daughters aged 3 and 10 months! What is your limb difference? My youngest daughter Ottilie has a condition called PFFD, this means her right femur is shorter than it should be. It also normally affects the knee and hip. When did your parents find out? We found out when Ottilie was around 6 hours old! The midwife was doing the newborn checks on her as we were desperate to get home and introduce Ottilie to her big brother and sister. Unfortunately this went out the window when they realised her leg length difference and we had to stay in hospital for 3 nights whilst she was tested for all kinds of things (limb differences can also be markers for other conditions such as Down’s syndrome). It was so hard seeing the X-ray she had done on the day she was born, clearly showing her shorter bone, which was also curved(quite typical with pffd). What h...