The holiday season always brings about a time of reflection for me about the impact clubfoot has had on our families life, and on my perspective of the world. I talk about how I felt navigating the holiday season after learning about her clubfoot diagnosis and how isolated I felt knowing my life had changed in an instant and everyone else seemed to be functioning as nothing had changed. I read a quote about grief from a recent book I read, and talk about how I think it relates to my experience of clubfoot diagnosis.

A quick check in episode with life updates for myself and my clubfoot cutie. I talk about transition to working full time and the impacts it has had on our family, and how the current clubfoot stage lends itself less to those day to day experiences and updates.

This episode features a conversation with Jacob Kodner, a clubfoot dad. Jacob talks about his experience of hearing the clubfoot diagnosis, how he went about researching treatment options, and how he feels clubfoot treatment impacted him as a first time father. There are so many clubfoot dads out there that are active partners in their child's clubfoot treatment and I am grateful for Jacob's willingness to share his with all of you. If you know a clubfoot dad who might need to hear from another dad, this is the episode to share!

I had a recent email from a parent asking about our daughter's life after BnB in regards to sports and activities and how it compares to her peers. I talk about our cutie's overall activity level and the different components that play into that. I unexpected got emotional at the end of the episode, talking about how we have seen a transition from clubfoot being a major part of her life to now only being a piece of her story. Hope this episode helps parents out there who are wondering about life after BnB!

In this episode I open up about my feelings of moving from being her primary caregiver with BnB to our cutie going to Kindergarten full time. The amount of angst I felt about her going to Kindergarten was largely tied into her also graduating from BnB and trying to figure out how to transition out of that caregiver role for her. I felt very lost and wasn't sure whether or not I wanted (or even had a right to) create content for clubfoot parents. I hope these musing are helpful in some capacity to you all!

It has been a minute since I released a new episode and I thought I would give a little update on my cutie's clubfoot and what's been happening in our lives. Looking forward to releasing more episodes soon. As always, if there is content you want to hear about, please reach out! I thrive on the feedback from you all.

For the first episode of season 4 of A Clubfoot Mom podcast features a conversation with Emily Mallion a clubfoot mom and author of the children's book "Do You Have Magic Boots?" centered around the clubfoot journey. Emily talks about her son's clubfoot journey and the unique experience they had traveling the world as a family while he was in BnB. She gives her top 5 tips for traveling and how the experience traveling informed her writing her book. A huge thanks to Emily for being a guest and to check out her book click this link: https://emilymallionbooks.com/

In this episode I talk about the challenges we faced with our cutie that we might have attributed to the BnB which in hindsight was actually probably more about her personality than anything else. It is hard enough trying to figure out what an infant needs and then you add in a medical device and it adds another layer of complexity. This is my reflection of how what I think was less about BnB and more about my cutie.

A first ever for the podcast, an episode dedicated to physical therapy and clubfoto treatment, with my incredible guest Denise Watson. Denise is an Advanced Practice Physiotherapist who is the lead practioner in the Ponseti Clubfoot Service and has been practicing the Ponseti method for 21 years. I gathered all the questions for this episode directly from parents on Instagram and Denise was gracious enough to answer them all. I learned so much from this conversation and know you will too.

As my cutie gets older and enters into more organized sports, I wonder whether or not I should be telling her coaches or gym teachers about her clubfoot? I don't pretend to have the answer, I just walk through my experience with her gymnastics coach and trying to determine the best path forward with disclosing her clubfoot diagnosis to people.

As my cutie gets older and enters into more organized sports, I wonder whether or not I should be telling her coaches or gym teachers about her clubfoot? I don't pretend to have the answer, I just walk through my experience with her gymnastics coach and trying to determine the best path forward with disclosing her clubfoot diagnosis to people.

A couple of months ago, I stumbled upon a bad review for my book Clubfoot Chronicles, and in this episode I discuss how I felt about the review and what it made me consider in relation to my work within the clubfoot community.