• Visit www.limbdifferences.org, a "home base" for online support for limb differences (anomalies of the legs, arms, hands or feet)

Resources for Fibular Hemimelia

• If your child has fibular hemimelia, join the Yahoo group for fibular hemimelia. Then read the archives - a wealth of information at your fingertips.
  
  
• A UK site on hemimelia puts FH in context.
  
  
• The Case of the Missing Fibula: A Personal Account of Prenatal Diagnosis is my personal essay about my daughter's diagnosis with fibular hemimelia.

Resources for Limb Lengthening

• International Center for Limb Lengthening, Rubin Institute for Advanced Orthopedics at Sinai Hospital, Baltimore, MD
  
  
• Parents of Fixator Kids is a Yahoo group for parents of kids using external fixators. Remember to read the archives.
  
  
• Limb Lengthening: A Dad's Journal is a personal essay written by a father on a limb lengthening list. He agreed to share it anonymously for Journeymama readers. I found it tremendously moving and inspiring (and somewhat terrifying) as I prepared for my daughter's surgery.

Resources for Amputation

• International Child Amputee Network 

Books

• You Will Dream New Dreams: Inspiring Personal Stories by Parents of Children With Disabilities, edited by Stanley Klein and Kim Schive
  
  
• Reflections from a Different Journey: What Adults with Disabilities Wish All Parents Knew, edited by Stanley Klein and John Kemp.
  
  
• Books for children and sibilings from the Parents of Fixator Kids Yahoo group
  
  
• Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth and Everyday Magic by Martha Beck
  
  
• Conquering Your Child's Chronic Pain: A Pediatrician's Guide to Reclaiming a Normal Childhood by Lonnie Zeltzer and Christina Blackett Schlank
  
  
• Relieve Your Child's Chronic Pain: A Doctor's Program for Relieiving Headaches, Abdominal Pain, Fibromyalgia, Juvenile Rhemetoid Arthritis, and More by Eliot Krane and Deborah Mitchell

• www.disABILITIESBOOKS.com houses an excellent online catalog of books of interest to parents of children with disabilities, family members, and professionals who serve children and their families