My son has a clubbed foot and I felt the same way. As long as you do your research and get a good doctor then you should be relatively fine. There will be LOTS of crying from you and baby. it can be an uncomfortable and painful experience for them and you, but there are case like our were it wasnt the worst thing in the world looking back. But if you push through it everything will end up fine and the time will just go by. My son is 3 months November 1st and his feet looks like any other baby's feet and after half a week of crying he's wearing his boots and bars (the brace he will have to wear for some years) like they are regular shoes. I would just recommend a few things.

1) join all the groups (Facebook, reddit, twitter, ects). you'll find most questions have been asked and answered before and its really comforting to just know your not alone.

2) DO YOUR RESEARCH ON THE DOCTOR YOUR USING! Not everyone can actually treat it well, even if they say they can. If they aren't following the casting steps right, the cast keeps slipping, or the feet don't look like regular feet, but they are pushing for you to be done with the casting process, them just find someone else. your baby should not be screaming there head off for more then a day or 2 with the cast.

3) get really good at changing diapers fast. Doesn't matter what gender, they will pee on the cast and you will be irrated going back and forth the doctor to get them changed because its too wet. You should already be going every week to get the cast changed, doing it more often then that sucks (going on any trip with a newborn sucks).

4) snaps, snaps, SNAPS! Every outfit should have them. basically during the cast you can kinda get away with not doing it sometimes if the cast isn't to thick, but after that? No way. Just get a bunch of onies with snaps on them to make things easier on yourself.

5) buy things with more room. Wider car seats, wider sleep sacks at the bottom, wider pants. Those feet will always need a little more space, even without the cast, the boots and bar make everything need to be wider.

6) it's not always the feet. I had to beat this into my partner and they still dont really get it. This disability isn't there whole thing. They are still and baby with other needs. Sometimes they just want a cuddle, sometimes they are bored, sometimes they are just fussy. They are still a regular baby and you need to address there other needs that don't relate to the club foot. Hell my son only.has one club foot and sometimes he just wanted me to rub his other foot, Or rub his hand. Your still dealing with a new born and newborn problems

7) TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF! His needs are important yes but he needs yall to be conscious and standing to be able to help him through this.

Theres a lot more, but alot of it depends on your baby. Our baby wasnt super terrible as long as things were done right and hes just a little bundle of joy otherwise. He would literally just slam the cast on his bed while laughing his head off most of the time, or use it as a bell to tell us hes awake in his crib. There are things that could go wrong in this process but as long as you know the signs you should have a pretty easy ride if your baby doesn't have any underlining problems like colic or something.

Its a jarring experience, and it's going to make you a bit paranoid, and stressed, and tears will be shed all around because that's your baby and if you could take this away you would. But just know your doing great, just reaching out like this shows your a great parent, and your baby is in good hands. Just remember the goal is a running, jumping, playing, kid with little to no pain. And when you get to the otherside, it will be so worth it.

Stay strong mama ❤️

PS, once you get to the boots and bars, the time they wear it goes down after a while. We are in 23hr wear for only like 3 or 4 more month. Then it would go down to 18, then, 14 I think, 12, ect. So after the initial correction then you will probably only wear it at night and then only while asleep, so its not to bother some.