What car seat is recommended after surgery?

[pepper]

Hi. My daughter is 16 mos. old and was injured at birth. Her progress has been extraordinary with physical therapy and she has regained nearly full mobility. Her orthopedic surgeon has scheduled surgery on 7/31 to loosen the tight muscles and perform a tendon transfer. Despite the worries of surgery and the fact that her father is currently in Iraq, I find that I am obsessed with one detail. How big is the cast going to be? What car seat will accommodate for it and safely carry a 20 lb. baby? He also said that after the cast she would be in a brace. Is the brace usually the same size as the cast?
Help (and prayers) requested!

[Francine_Litz]

just to let you know - I answered your post on the general message board

[admin]

My daughter had a sub scapular slide and tendon transfer last April. She was four at the time, she is now 5. I just put her in her regular car seat and buckled the seat belt across her (it has the straps that come over her shoulder and buckles in the middle, but also has the option tho have the seat belt go across.)The cast was pretty big. It went around her whole torso and her left arm casted in a position like she was stopping traffic. It took her a couple days to get used to it, ,but then it was like she didn't even have a cast on. Good luck!! I am sure everything will go great!

Melani