……this will allow baby’s foot (and leg!) muscles and ligaments to strengthen in the correct alignment as baby starts to stand and walk.

A Gardini14 October 2019Comment

The single most important activity for school preparation

The single most important activity for building the skills and knowledge necessary for children to successfully learn to read when they begin school……

A Gardini27 August 2019Comment

Baby Pilates. Hipster Trend? Or brain-changing baby exercise?

This stage will influence their body awareness, postural control, balance, co-ordination and strength like no other time in their lives. This exact stage…. is actually one of the most important periods in a baby’s life for their gross motor learning AND their cognitive (brain) development.

A Gardini5 August 2019

Would you have known what to do?

But a few minutes in he got the full-on leg shakes, turned the colour of sea foam, stopped crying which I thought was weird given the injury to his mouth, and by the time we got him and the baby (!) out of the bush, into the car and 3 minutes down the road he’d stopped responding to us and started falling asleep.

A Gardini11 June 2019Comment

Is your baby getting the most out of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity?

Now if I didn’t know better, I might have got him up in a walker, encouraged standing in an activity-centre, had him dancing in a jolly-jumper, walked him by his hands and got him cruising on furniture. He might have walked sooner, but he might never have crawled.

A Gardini28 May 2019Comment

Don't forget the second-time Mums!

So though I had much more confidence in myself as a mother of a baby the second time around, I really lost confidence in myself as a mother to my big boy. I didn’t know how to be a mum to two little souls. My heart had swelled to twice the size, but it also broke a lot more after Alfie.

A Gardini9 May 2019Comment

Baby Walkers

Baby Walkers. They can be a bit of a dirty word in the kids physio world. But they can also be great if the right ones are used, in the right way and at the right time.

A Gardini30 April 2019

Me As A First-Time Mum

I was one of those Mums who still had the breathing pads under her child’s mattress at the age of 18 months. Yup. Things got a little out of hand.

A Gardini16 April 2019Comment

6 things a baby physio wishes every parent knew

Let them eat sand, play in puddles and throw them up in the air all the time. Spin them around in circles. And later on when they are big and brave, let them climb trees. Don’t be scared Mumma and Papa.

A Gardini2 April 2019Comment

One of the most important movements your baby will ever learn

I can safely say that trunk rotation or ‘twisting’ is compromised, or is a ‘missing’ element for the majority of children I see with movement difficulties.

A Gardini19 March 2019Comment