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Any other March babies not walking?
Isla didn't crawl until 8months but was pulling up and crusing by 9months and walking with her vtech walker. She can stand alone in the middle of the floor lol but when you try to encourage her to step towards you she just gets down and crawls! Im wondering if the wooden floors are hindering her, maybe they're too slippy? Has anyone bought pre walkers or are they a waste of money?? Matthew walked at 11months and we had carpet then so didn't see the need lol!
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We have laminate floors and I was worried that this was hindering him so got him a pair of 'cruising shoes' from Clark's. They have softer, more flexible soles than walking shoes but they are rubber, unlike pram shoes. They do seem to help, although he has learned to stand up in his socks, so maybe the laminate isn't as much of a hinderance as I thought!
Despite Daisy crawling at 6 months and now being able to swim (with arm bands) and climb on and off beds and up the stairs (not a good thing!), she can't walk. She is the fastest crawler in the entire universe though (!) so has no real reason to learn to walk.
Daisy is really tall (taller than all of our friend's babies and nearly as tall as my 2yr old niece) and I'm sure that's part of the reason - she's not got enough balance yet!
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mrs buttons, funyy u say about daisy being tall, i for a while thought it was perhas austin being really small (just below 9th for weight and height) that was keeping him back, thinking he wasn't big and stong enough.
they're all so different and do things int heir own time, allthough i know as a mum it's difficult to believe as i'm beginning to worry myself silly over austin's lack of talking...he's still just 'dadadada' and 'uh', he doesn't point at anything either, so i'll be quizzing the hv at his 12month check about that.
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Im lucky that my hv is really great and thou im sure she must think "not her again" wen i turn up for weighing every few weeks i can ask her anything and she is very reassuring and says that they will develop in their own time and my concern at her lack of doing things is nothing to worry about as at all....lol which is fine till a few weeks later wen i start stressing about something else lol lol