Hi there everybody!

I gave birth to my twins on the second of July this year and my little boy was born with clubfeet. I cried for hours and thought that it could not be fixed.

Alex runs on Plett main beach 2009

In April 2003 my husband Steve and I, and our 10-week-old baby son Alex, were the first South Africans to visit Dr Ponseti at the University of Iowa Children’s Hospital. With Alex facing clubfoot surgery on both feet, we had made the life-changing decision to travel 10,000 miles for treatment.

Jemima Belle, born 18th July 2007 (Cape Town)
by Bronwyn McQueen

My husband Richard and I were told at the 22-week scan that our daughter, Jemima Belle, had bilateral clubfeet. I was deeply shocked and totally devastated. I really did not know what it meant and my first thought was that we might have to terminate the pregnancy.

The sonographer reassured us that it was probably unrelated to a syndrome. Because of previous fertility and pregnancy problems we had opted for CVS (chronic villi sampling) at 13 weeks, ruling out many if not all possible syndromes and genetic disorders.

Baby Tumiso born 20 October 2004 (Johannesburg)
By Brenda Moloi

Tumiso, a beautiful baby boy, was born at Natalspruit hospital at 2:00 am, weighing a healthy 3.995 kilos. The doctors told his mom Brenda that he had clubfoot but she’d never heard of clubfoot.

“I asked myself if he would be able to walk, but where was the answer? Nowhere. At 8:00 am the doctor came and told me he would have casts, I was so confused, I didn’t understand. I took him to the hospital, but every time we had the casts, they fell off the same afternoon or the next day. We had to wait for the next week for him to be casted again and it went on and on with no difference in his feet. When I got back to work I searched the Internet for clubfoot. What is it? How can I help my baby? I was so desperate for him to get well.