What should I do if my fetus is diagnosed as having clubfoot by ultrasound?

  With the popularity and improvement of prenatal ultrasound examination, mothers and their family members in the middle and late stages of pregnancy often come to the clinic or ask me online what to do if the fetus is diagnosed with “clubfoot” or “clubfoot” by ultrasound.  One of the most frequently asked questions and the most difficult for doctors to answer is “should I keep the baby”. I have said many times that the child is your blood and flesh, and that it is not easy for the mother to get pregnant, and to put it more seriously, to abort a fetus in late pregnancy is to kill it!  First, the ultrasound diagnosis of clubfoot may be inaccurate, as several mothers have diagnosed their children with this condition prenatally, but after delivery, the baby’s feet were normal.  Secondly, it is important to have a proper understanding of this disease. It is important to know that congenital clubfoot is the most common foot deformity in pediatric orthopedics, with an incidence of about 1 in 1,000. This means that one in every 1,000 newborns may have clubfoot. It is more common in boys. There is no problem with the future intelligence of the child, and we are now using the international advanced Pansetti technology for conservative treatment with very good results (see the relevant articles on this website). That is to say, it is an easy treatment and the effect after treatment is very good, the majority of children will be the same as normal people in the future.  Third, of course, there are very few children with foot deformities combined with other deformities, such as multiple joint contractures, which are often more difficult to treat.  If the fetus is diagnosed with “clubfoot” by ultrasound, parents should think and cherish it, and not kill your flesh and blood so easily!