My daughter is a certified #clubfootcutie! 

She was born with mild talipes equinovarus — also known as clubfoot — where the foot turns inward due to a short/tight heel tendon (you can see her right foot in pic #2). I had never heard of it before, and I thought it was just normal scrunchy baby feet! 

Even though there’s no known cause, it’s more common than I realized. I’ve had friends tell me that they or someone they know were born with clubfoot, and I never would’ve guessed because they got treatment and now there’s no visible evidence of it.

So I’m grateful that a brilliant doctor named Dr. Ponseti was able to come up with a 100% effective treatment method via a series of casts and bracing to lengthen the Achilles tendon and straighten the foot. It’s a process that can take several months but it won’t impact her growth or development at all and she could still be a professional athlete if she wanted to! 

She’s almost done with her second week of casts already and I’m so so proud of her for being such a champ!!!

I just noticed how she’s got her hand to her mouth in both pics of her in her cast… she loves nibbling on her fist since she ‘discovered’ her hand, it’s so cute!