Best shoe I have ever found. Miracle shoes doing miracles in our home.
My daughter toe walks. We’ve spent a ridiculous amount of money to get her to wear shoes and she’s never has. She’s four and a half. Hundreds of dollars on shoes. I found these on a google search of best shoes for AFOs. Wish I would’ve found these years ago.First off she loves auditory input. So the squeak is right up her alley and she’ll do what is necessary to get them to squeak. That motivation alone has her heel to toe walking which is a miracle in our home. Haven’t even needed to use the AFOs though we are going to. Maybe if I found these years ago we wouldn’t need them to begin with.Now most shoes when you put them on her she walks weird. Like a dog does when putting on shoes. The funny walk that people video tape and put on fb. It’s cute but counterproductive for our needs. These are the first shoe she walked naturally in, didn’t panic when the shoe was on, and didn’t send her into sensory overload. It’s a miracle I tell you.Watching her run heel to toe is tear jerking. She loves the squeak and it urges her to run to get the squeak faster. It’s such a huge deal.Her leg tendon/muscles aren’t so tight. Part of her PT is massaging and stretching the tendon so it’s not so taught. Which is a fear of toe walking kids. As well as the surgery a lot have to go through by cutting the Achilles’ tendon and reattaching it. Toe walkers over time make it so tight that that’s the only option. It happens a lot to them in their teens. I absolutely do not want that for my baby. Intervention is paramount. These are priceless miracle shoes for us.The designs are super freaking adorable as well as the names of the shoes. I mean come on, those are amazing and whoever thought them up was a genius.I loved them so much we got two pairs for my daughter. One for inside and outside. We may get a third if the AFOs stretch out the shoe. Tbh I’m just happy she’ll wear them and excited there’s so many different designs I’d buy the whole dang collection. We bought Duchess Bubble Sparkles the unicorn and Leo Longfire the dragon for her (so far and I mean how cute are those names) and Captain Zuga the pirate skull shoe for my 16 month old. These are this houses shoes from now on and I won’t buy any others.My only plea is the sizes stop at 13. We got 10s for her due to the AFO you need to buy a bigger size and they don’t have half sizes which tbh isn’t a big deal at all. But. They stop at size 13. Please please please from the bottom of my heart make them for bigger kids. We have time till her foot gets there but I’ll be devastated when she outgrows the last size shoe. I mean we have time probably years in fact (I hope). I’m even tempted to buy one of each size just to have them for the future just in case.Can’t say enough about these shoes. Oh they have a squeaker you can turn off and on I’m not sure if I mentioned that. Sweetest sound I’ve ever heard as it only squeaks when you walk heel to toe. Super soft material with give. Both my kids seem to do awesome in them and my daughter is flourishing in them. Can’t say enough amazing things about them.Miracle shoes. Pure and simple.