My DS has just turned 1 and has always ha issues with his toenails. In the days after he was born, I spent ages looking at his fingers and toes - as you do when you've just become a mum! - and I notice his big toe nails appeared depressed within the toe and I couldn't get my head around how the nails would ever be able to grow properly without turning upwards to go over the end of his toe unobstructed. The edges of both big toe nails also curl and grow back on themselves. As a result he's always had angry and sore-looking toes, and has had several infections and courses of antibiotics as a result, which seemed inevitable given how they were only ever going to grow into the skin on the edges. I spoke to my GP very early on, who said they would just grow out given time, and I shoud leave them, cutting only when absolutely necessary. A health visitor tol me to massage them with antisptic cream and tape the skin away from the edge of the nail with micropore every bedtime. I'm no specialist, but how will they just 'grow out', and doesn't taping them risk deforming his little toes?!! My poor DS hates having his nails cut, and I do it very carefully when it really has to be done - it's nt related to how they are cut, they've not been overcut and become ingrown, they've been like it since day 1. Hs anyone else come across this? Does anyone know why it's happened and what, if anything, can be done about it? I honestly don't see how they can possibly fix themselves and, after a year of being like it, I don't think anything's likely to change without some sort of inervention, but my GP, who's also the baby and child specialist in the surgery, seems to think I'm unnecessarily worried. Surely it's not right.