How I Cared for My Baby's Bone Development

Okay, so I am all for proper development of my baby's bones, considering my husband and I both suffer from quite a lot of back pains, I really don't want her to go through the same. We go often to chiropractors, but I am still a little concerned about taking my daughter to one yet, even though I really want to, maybe when she is just a bit older. I follow all things natural with her development, ever since my daughter was born I researched and decided to not use walkers, any crotch hanging carriers or jumpy seats as I heard they might not be good for the developing spine and pelvis. I didn't even get a Bumbo seat for her to sit up, and I never even held her hand to assist her to walk. My theory is, if you can't do it by yourself, then you are probably not ready for it yet, and it can't be good if I force you to. That, and plus I really wasn't in a rush for my baby to walk. On the side note, did you know that the crawling motion is actually more stimulating to the brain than walking? Crawling is actually an important part of brain development, so it is actually better for you to encourage your early walker that skipped crawling to do more crawling. Well, anyway, and when it came to footwear I follow the advice that barefoot is the best for babies to crawl and learn how to walk. But the down side of this is I tend a lot of comments and dirty looks about how I am not letting my baby wear socks in winter, and now about not wearing shoes when walking. Now that my daughter is walking outside more and more, I went and bought those soft sole baby shoes from Target, they are kind of like leather socks, and I intend to keep her in soft sole shoes as long as possible, I might even get her one of those FiveFingers shoes with us when she gets to that size. I really hope that by following nature that my daughter will never have to worry about back pains in her life.

Shoes Test Walk Result

After trying on the FiveFingers shoes more I realized that the Sprint style's has a harder piece behind the heels and it rubs on my ankle, the Velcro is also kind of rubbing on top of my feet, and I had to go back to the store to exchange for the KSO style. This style is a much better fit with me, I even had to go down a shoe size, since it has longer toes space, and everything was just comfortable except the painful part of putting it on. My husband is always enthusiastic about new stuff, so even though you are suppose to ease into the exercise routine with these shoes, of course we went all out, and walked a whole day in them. Walking on uneven surfaces like grass, dirt, and even pebble roads were surprisingly comfortable, you can feel everything under your feet, and it actually feels like a little mini feet massage. However, on hard concrete floor, our feet do hurt, but supposedly it should train our feet to walk correctly and strengthen the correct muscles. After walking only a little bit in these, I can feel certain muscles in my thigh and calves soring already, in a good way though. Overall I feel like I had a good workout day, and by the next day, the soreness is all gone and I am good again and ready for more walking.

I Bought Those Vibram FiveFingers Shoes Today

I can’t believe I went out and bought these, I mean most people’s reaction to this shoe is something like, “ew, disgusting.” But after reading up about the benefit of being barefoot, I just can’t let this little bit of self-consciousness stop me from achieving my health or at least to test it out. My husband suffers from heel pain, and puts those support gel thing in his shoes, which now I learn might not be a good idea. I have had chronic back pain and many sciatica attacks ever since middle school. And believe me that this is no fun. I have been through many chiropractors and even had custom made feet support pieces in my shoes, but none has fixed me yet. I do believe that I probably need to work this problem out by wearing proper footwear and exercising and stretching. Now, reading from Vibram’s website, these FiveFingers shoes are suppose to let your feet move how it is naturally intended to, and it will train those muscles that have long been neglected due to our restrictive shoes, and in turn strengthen and align my spine and improve posture. I read some reviews from Amazon.com that claims some promising results, now I just got to try it. Going to start walking exercise with my husband, since I bought him a pair too, in these and see how they turn out.