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Toddler has been wearing shoes with stuffing still in! Any experts out there?

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Spyrothedragonn · 21/12/2023 13:45

My 15 month old got fitted for some new shoes in early November and walked out of the shop in them, having been given the all good.

I just went back to the shoe shop to get him remeasured and was so shocked and upset to see a big bit of stuffing right at the end of one foot. When I put his foot back in them to test tightness the assistant said that his front toe was being pushed.

I’m so upset, I’m always so careful to make sure shoes are fitted properly, right size socks etc and to think he’s been walking around with his toes squashed makes me really nervous about his foot development. Everywhere online says can cause permanent problems etc etc

Anyone know anything about this subject? Will his foot be ok? Bones are so soft and malleable at this age :(

Please everyone double check for the padding even if your child has been OKed to leave shop in new shoes!

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Spyrothedragonn · 21/12/2023 14:14

Anyone? 😕

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Badknitter · 21/12/2023 14:14

It will be fine- my now teen (with undamaged feet) once didn’t tell us their shoes hurt until we needed to buy 1.5 sizes bigger.

LetMeOut2021 · 21/12/2023 14:16

Badknitter · 21/12/2023 14:14

It will be fine- my now teen (with undamaged feet) once didn’t tell us their shoes hurt until we needed to buy 1.5 sizes bigger.

same. I thought my son was just repeating something he’d heard at nursery once when he told me his shoes were a bit tight. Felt awful when I realised.

OP any damage would be caused by long term wear. I bet your toddler is carried and in a pushchair the majority of the time their shoes are on anyway.

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RougeFraise · 21/12/2023 14:16

Presumably he hasn’t been in them 24/7 since you bought them so I expect he’s ok. Did he not cry having them on etc? If not he’ll be just fine. Plenty of shoe free (and sock free) time

PiggieWig · 21/12/2023 14:18

I once rushed DS straight to the shoe shop when he started limping and saying his shoe hurt in town. The shop assistant took it off to measure him and out popped a sticklebrick.

caringcarer · 21/12/2023 14:28

PiggieWig · 21/12/2023 14:18

I once rushed DS straight to the shoe shop when he started limping and saying his shoe hurt in town. The shop assistant took it off to measure him and out popped a sticklebrick.

🤣

MichonnesBBF · 21/12/2023 15:08

You could be me with my 11yr old...had a black toenail (assumed it was football) said his foot hurt in all his shoes (again put it down to his black toenail) nope he had been a size adult 5...he was actually an 8 🙈 why he only complained about 1 foot I will never know....

Mydustymonstera · 21/12/2023 15:14

Logically, it they were fit and measured with the stuffing in, then the shoe-with-stuffing is the right size! Relax they’ll be fine. I’m sure the majority of this stress is just about flogging us more and more pairs of overpriced shoes.

Saddm · 21/12/2023 15:15

Toddler ds walked the length of a shopping centre with a domino in his shoe!

nmchg · 21/12/2023 15:21

Aw OP it'll be ok. My son (11 at the time) was comfortably in a size 12.5 and had been for a little while. Took him to get size checked/new shoes for starting high school. Turned out he was an adult size 4!! How the heck he got the 12.5s on I don't know. Maybe they'd stretched. I felt like the worst mum but the shop assistant assured me it happens loads and sure enough several years later my son's feet are fine and he never had any issues. So please don't be hard on yourself about this.

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Spyrothedragonn · 21/12/2023 15:51

Thanks so much everyone - feeling a bit calmer now. Good to hear others have had all sorts of mishaps 🤣 and it’s all be fine

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BertieBotts · 21/12/2023 16:00

I spent a lot of money/time buying correctly fitting shoes for my children and then DS2 used to quite regularly insist on wearing two left wellies from non-matching pairs, possibly in different sizes.

His feet seem fine :)

RafaistheKingofClay · 21/12/2023 16:06

DNiece once spent the afternoon running round the park with her shoes on the wrong feet. I’d like to say she put them on herself but no, it was me.

eurochick · 21/12/2023 18:20

Exactly the same happened to us. She wore them for ages before we noticed. The guilt was real as she often used to whinge when we were putting them on, but she's now several years on with normal shaped feet.

Brandyginger · 21/12/2023 18:22

Ds moaning and crying that he couldn’t walk through town as his feet were agony. Limping and carrying on. Marched him into shoe shop to prove that his shoes were fine as they were only 8 weeks old and…he’d grown two shoe sizes.

TheLurpackYears · 26/12/2023 06:24

His feet will suvive. Ds once can out of school saying his foot hurt. On inspection he had spent the whole day with a piece of lego in his shoe.

EliflurtleAndTheInfiniteMadness · 26/12/2023 06:33

My youngest has several toes that are curved quite a bit to the side. He was born that way. I was worried about it but the paediatrican in hospital said it was fine. A couple got more curved when he was 3.5 years, but our GP, who's great said it's not anything that needs addressing so I wouldn't worry about toes being a little squished. It doesn't effect my DSs walking or balance or anything. If it was painful your DS would have let you know before now.

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