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No pics yet..they are definitely newborn. Some of you will recognize my account from her last litter and the baby videos.

Went out to get the mail and saw her head hanging out. She came out to greet me...looked inside and in the back newborn babies.

Went inside and made a sign so the mail delivery people are aware. When i was taping it up I think she thought it was nesting material since she kept trying to grab it from me.

Im hoping she'll decide to move them. While its cute and amusing...there are much better nursery locations lol.

I wasn't a huge Britny Fox fan, but this is one of my favorite classic rock covers ever. Dizzy's vocals were perfect for this. And of course...more cowbell.

Thought I’d give an update on my wife’s THR saga in case it helps anyone dealing with something similar.

She had her original hip replacement about 2 years ago, and over that time had 3 dislocations, almost exactly 6 months apart. The first one was clearly a bad position, she was on the floor and got up awkwardly. But the 2nd and 3rd were from really minor movements while sitting, one in a chair and one just on the edge of the bed. That’s when it started to feel like something wasn’t right.

Her original surgeon retired right after the surgery, so we didn’t get much help there. The next surgeon we saw basically took the stance that she was just one of the unlucky ones this happens to and wouldn’t even entertain a revision, which was frustrating.

We eventually found another surgeon who actually took a closer look and was willing to go in. Going into surgery, he thought there might be some misalignment of the components, which could have meant a full revision. He said that would be a pretty involved process with a lot of work to remove everything. The alternative, depending on what he found, was possibly using a constrained liner.

Once he got in there, he said everything looked pretty well aligned, especially the stem. But even with slight inward movement, the hip would dislocate almost immediately. He tried swapping just the ball and tested it again, and it was still unstable. At that point he went with the constrained liner, and said once it was in, everything locked in well and was as stable as he would expect. He wasn’t able to dislocate it during testing.

He did also clean up some scar tissue during the procedure as well.

What was expected to be a 4-hour surgery ended up being about 2 hours since he didn’t have to replace all the components.

He did make it clear that even with the liner, dislocation is still technically possible with enough force, and there will likely be some loss in range of motion. But given where she was before, this already feels like a big step in the right direction.

We’re about a week out from surgery now, so still early in recovery, but so far it’s been a smoother process than we were expecting, especially compared to what a full revision might have looked like.