Does a baby become bowl legged if you always hold him by putting him on your hip, legs straddling your waist?

Question

- friends telling my wife not to do it, is this true or myth?

Answer 1

I'm going with myth. This is how I walk around with my 11mo all the time and his little legs are fine. My mother told me that's how she always held her three children as well & we're all good.

Answer 2

That's a myth.
Baby's are very flexible when they are first born, so they can straddle the hip and stuff and not be affected by it.
But if the baby starts walking too soon, that's supposedly when bowleggedness becomes possible. They're putting weight on their legs that their legs aren't necessarily ready for. that's why also obese children are sometimes bow legged also.

Answer 3

Children become bowl legged when they start putting too much weight on their legs and their bones are soft and can't support them. I have never heared a child getting bowl legged from being carried around. My nephew was bowl legged for a bit because he started walking at 6 1/2 months, but he's almost 4 and I don't think he is any more.

Answer 4

No, it's a wives tale! Babies are born bow legged and their legs will automatically turn inwards as they start to learn to walk. If your child ends up bow-legged it is because of genetics or a defect not because they were carried on your hip. Just think...if that were true all of us would be walking around like a bull dog! LOL

Answer 5

Good grief as Charlie Brown would say, lol, I think my two kids were attached to my hip and now thirty yrs later their legs are both just fine.
I think this is nothing more than a wives tale.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

I think it is a myth. My daughter is far from being bow legged.

Answer 8

They used to think that cause bowleggedness, but now they know what DOES cause bowlegs:
-Rickets ("vitamin" D deficiency caused by not getting enough sun or supplemental vitamin D from your diet)
-Some other extreme malnutrition
-Tumors
-rarely infections


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowlegged

Answer 9

I never heard that before. If it were true im sure the doctor would tell us.

Answer 10

total myth. probably perpetuated by old wives. bow leggedness is something one just "has". it isn't brought on by anything.