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Toe walking
My son, who is now 13 months has recently been walking on his toes
ALOT. He has been walking for about 4 months now, but just started this. I just started to notice also, that he is pretty flat footed. My sister and brother both have very flat feet and I wonder if this could be the cause? He has very very thick feet also. Any suggestions would be great,Thanks |
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Toe walking
"newmama" wrote in message ups.com... My son, who is now 13 months has recently been walking on his toes ALOT. He has been walking for about 4 months now, but just started this. I just started to notice also, that he is pretty flat footed. My sister and brother both have very flat feet and I wonder if this could be the cause? He has very very thick feet also. Any suggestions would be great,Thanks It seems to be very, very common for kids to walk on their toes. Who knows why. Most kids I know go through it. Our friends' children did it, our kids did it, the peds' kids did it, his friends' kids did it. They eventually grow out of it. |
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Toe walking
"newmama" wrote in message ups.com... My son, who is now 13 months has recently been walking on his toes ALOT. He has been walking for about 4 months now, but just started this. I just started to notice also, that he is pretty flat footed. My sister and brother both have very flat feet and I wonder if this could be the cause? He has very very thick feet also. Any suggestions would be great,Thanks Toe walking can be a sign of quite a few things, however it can also be a normal part of development. Toe walking can be an issue w/ CP, Tethered Spine, Sensory Integration Dysfunction, Sensory issues that go in hand w/ autistic tendencies and a host of other issues. Toe walking itself doesn't indicate that those issues are what your child has, however it is defiantly worth the effort to have them checked out. If your not happy w/ the check from your Doc, a visit to a neurologist would be my next step. I have BTDT. But again, some toe walking is completely normal and does not indicate a disorder. I don't want to seem like I'm trying to scare you ... just letting you know some facts that I wish I would have known 6 years ago. ~Kat |
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Toe walking
newmama wrote: My son, who is now 13 months has recently been walking on his toes ALOT. He has been walking for about 4 months now, but just started this. I just started to notice also, that he is pretty flat footed. My sister and brother both have very flat feet and I wonder if this could be the cause? He has very very thick feet also. Any suggestions would be great,Thanks Unless he has other behavioral problems, toe-walking is extremely common. I think the only thing I've ever read about it being a problem is if he does it 100 percent of the time and can't seem to walk on his feet normally. I don't know when kids develop an arch, but it isn't until later anyway. Stasya |
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Toe walking
newmama wrote: My son, who is now 13 months has recently been walking on his toes ALOT. He has been walking for about 4 months now, but just started this. I just started to notice also, that he is pretty flat footed. My sister and brother both have very flat feet and I wonder if this could be the cause? He has very very thick feet also. Any suggestions would be great,Thanks DS toe walked and still does sometimes (25 mos). I just now noticed his foot starting to arch a bit. I wouldn't worry about it too much. I would just let him walk barefooted or in soft shoes like Robeez or Bobux as much as possible. -L. |
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Toe walking
You might want to make your son wear some shoes like -L. said.
When I was little I walked on my toes and when i was in 5th grade I still had a habit of walking on my toes and I ran on my toes too so I f you dont get him shoes he will have a habit of doing that for a long time lulublue2 |
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Toe walking
"newmama" wrote in message ups.com... My son, who is now 13 months has recently been walking on his toes ALOT. He has been walking for about 4 months now, but just started this. I would mention it at your next well visit. It can be very normal or it can be an indicator of something. One of those type things :-) I just started to notice also, that he is pretty flat footed. All 1yo's are flat footed and generally have thick wide feet. Nothing to worry about yet. My sister and brother both have very flat feet and I wonder if this could be the cause? My oldest and I have really flat feet too. The 4yo does not but I can't remember exactly when that changed. Way past 1yo though! -- Nikki, mama to Hunter 4/99 Luke 4/01 Thing One and Thing Two due 4/06 |
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Toe walking
"lulublue2" wrote in message oups.com... You might want to make your son wear some shoes like -L. said. When I was little I walked on my toes and when i was in 5th grade I still had a habit of walking on my toes and I ran on my toes too so I f you dont get him shoes he will have a habit of doing that for a long time The point of those shoes is to provide some foot protection and mimic barefoot conditions as closely as possible, so why not have him go barefoot as much as possible? |
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Toe walking
"toypup" wrote in message om... "lulublue2" wrote in message oups.com... You might want to make your son wear some shoes like -L. said. When I was little I walked on my toes and when i was in 5th grade I still had a habit of walking on my toes and I ran on my toes too so I f you dont get him shoes he will have a habit of doing that for a long time The point of those shoes is to provide some foot protection and mimic barefoot conditions as closely as possible, so why not have him go barefoot as much as possible? I think the medical position on this is that it's not a problem if their arch forms normally when their foot is flat on the ground. Debbie |
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Toe walking
"Unless he has other behavioral problems, toe-walking is extremely
common. I think the only thing I've ever read about it being a problem is if he does it 100 percent of the time and can't seem to walk on his feet normally." Yes, that's what my kids' doctor said when my son was doing it -- if it was for fun, and wasn't all the time, not a problem whatsoever. Given that your son *didn't* do it when he first started walking, and given that he clearly had no difficulty in learning to walk as he started at 9 months or so (which is fairly early), I doubt there is anything physically wrong. Ask about it at his next checkup -- isn't there one around 15 months for the MMR or something? or am I out of date? --Helen |
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