Bandy

[6demandingchildren]

Have you ever seen someone with bandy legs? my daughter was holding up my grandson and said people keep telling her not to stand him as his legs will go bandy, I have never seen a bandy person in my whole life.

To me babies look like they have slightly bandy sausage legs! Obviously this changes! A childhood friends mum had really bandy legs and knock knees!

maybe their is some kind of warning to the saying

How old is he?

Structurally, a babies legs are not designed to carry the weight of their big heads and bodies. That's why newborns do not spring up like baby gazelles after birth. They generally go through the developmental stages of rolling, crawling, sitting, pulling up, bobbing about, before they start walking, by which time their legs are strong enough, they have enough trunk control, coordination etc.

Bandy legs as an adult are usually as a result of osteoarthritis, or Paget's Disease, something like that.

Or vitamin d deficiency

I see loads of men with bandy legs. Skinny jeans make it easier to see, usually seems to be shorter guys.

No, it’s complete bollocks. If they straighten them out and stand themselves it’s because they’re comfortable holding their own weight - if they couldn’t then they would loosen their legs and sit.

I think it's an old wives tale that walking too soon can cause bandy-leggedness. My grandfather said the same thing to me when my daughter started cruising at 9 months or so.

I think it used to be more common when children would suffer from rickets or other deficiencies, but that's unusual now especially if you give a vitamin D supplement

although I have 6 children I honestly cant remember when they started to want to be on their legs, but my grandson has been wanting to be on his feet for quite some time now.

The medical term is 'rickets' & is caused by vitamin D & calcium deficiency.