Erin
My sister had the Harrington rods placed in her back. She is 36 yeaars old now, she had the surgery when she was abot 14,or 15 years old. She has never had any problems, she delivered 2 healty children, although I think she had to deliver 'naturally' becuase of the surgery for some reason, I don't know exactly why, somehting about the 'space' where the anetheseologists would insert the medicine. She was in the hospital for about a week. And home recovering for about 3 months, by recovering I mean, she didn't go to school, a tutor came to the house. Don't know how long you would be required to be off work.