by Courtney Weick | Mar 26, 2024 | Bump Kids, Healthy Living
It’s a common parental concern we hear as a physiotherapist working with children, are “my kids toes turned in” or “I notice that one foot turns in and the other doesn’t”. There can be many reasons for noticing this in your child and a lot of it can be resolved with...
by Phoebe Armfield | Mar 19, 2024 | Bump Kids, Healthy Living
The talus is a bone in your child’s foot. It is located between the heel bone (calcaneus) and your shin bones (tibia/fibula). This bone allows you and your child to transfer your weight across the ankle. When born, your bub’s foot may be positioned up and out, often...
by Courtney Weick | Feb 5, 2024 | Bump Kids
Is your child suffering from day or nighttime wetting? Have they been struggling with going to the bathroom regularly? Let’s talk about constipation and how it can affect your child’s bowel and bladder. Constipation in children is when they have fewer than...
by Courtney Weick | Jan 15, 2024 | Bump Kids
Vision provides continuous and holistic information that is not available through any other sense. Your baby isn’t born with vision like you and me. Their eyes develop and mature as they grow both inside and outside the womb. Your child’s vision continues to develop...
by Courtney Weick | Nov 14, 2023 | Bump Kids, Healthy Living
When it comes to newborns, I find there are so many questions that come up. As a physiotherapist who sees pediatrics the most common question I get is “is this normal?”, “should I be worried?”. In childhood development there is a WIDE range of “normal” development....
by Courtney Weick | Jul 12, 2023 | Bump Kids
More than 26,000 babies are born premature each year in Australia (before 37 weeks). Babies who are born less than 32 weeks gestational age are known as very premature babies and are at a higher risk of cerebral palsy and motor delays. In Australia 1 in 5 babies...
