Watching my daughter toddle across the living room, I frowned. ‘She’s dragging her feet,’ I worried to her dad, Jake, then 28. Tilting his head, he watched with concern as Nala shuffled along the floor. ‘Let’s make another appointment with the GP,’ he said. It was October 2021 and Nala, then two, still didn’t seem to walk like other kids her age and we’d been back and forth to the doctor for months.
Since Nala could crawl, we’d been worried about the positioning of her feet. They rested at odd angles, which was clearly impacting her ability to walk properly. We were repeatedly told by her doctor