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worried LO not standing or walking 14 months
Hi Ladies
Just after some reassurance really! My lo bum shuffles and gets around quite quickly and is content to do so. My concern is that she will not stand at all and crys or more like whinges if I try to stand her against furniture and goes all limp on me or lifts her legs up.
I have taken her to see the GP and they have just said she will do it in her own time, I took her to an osteopath who said pretty much the same!
But I am worried at nursery there are babies as young as 9 months cruising along I feel like she will never do it.
Has anyone else's lo done this
Helen
Just after some reassurance really! My lo bum shuffles and gets around quite quickly and is content to do so. My concern is that she will not stand at all and crys or more like whinges if I try to stand her against furniture and goes all limp on me or lifts her legs up.
I have taken her to see the GP and they have just said she will do it in her own time, I took her to an osteopath who said pretty much the same!
But I am worried at nursery there are babies as young as 9 months cruising along I feel like she will never do it.
Has anyone else's lo done this
Helen
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My LO turned one on the 4th sept so not quite 13 months but just wanted to say she does exactly the same thing!
She bum shuffles everywhere now but it took her until she was 11 months to even start and she shows no signs of wanting to cruise either. I think I'll start to worry if shes still not showing any signs once she turns 15 months as thats when I started to walk according to my Mum lol!
Can I ask how old you were when you started walking? I wonder if it follows?
Lara hope my lo is doingsomthing by 15 16 months I am driving my hubby mad with my fretting
I know it's hard not to worry or compare but just wanted to reassure you that your lo is not the only 14 month old not walking! DS was 14 months yesterday and will not put any weight on his legs if I try to encourage him to walk/stand by himself. He does cruise around the furniture but that's as far as it goes.
Tbh, I'm really not worried at the moment although I think I will start to worry if he's not walking by 18 months. Aside from not walking he is constantly on the go. Like your lo, he is a bum shuffler, he climbs on, in, under and over everything. I guess he really doesn't see the point in walking right now as he gets to wherever he wants to go.
I hope that's reassured you that you're not alone!! xx
I do feel so much better just by reading your responses it makes me feel better to know that other lo's are doing the same, I am surrounded by friends whose lo's all walking etc so I feel concerned however my little girl does talk non stop just like her mummy
And good for her being such a chatterbox! The other little girl I know who bum shuffled (and didn't walk until about 16 months) is also the best talker of her age I have met. Must be something about the way their brains are wired, I guess. ;\)
I think clearly by sitting back and taking it all in they are already bilingual
My daughter started crawling at 7.5 months old...l have 6 friends with 12 kids total and NON of them has started crawling before 9 months.They all told me that she will be walking by the time she is 9.
However my experience told me otherwise...l knew she will not walk early. All babies that l know who have been walking before 10 months old - never crawled. They went straight to walking.
She was on her feet at 8 but didnt move until she was pass 14 months old.
l have forbid my family to walk around with her and teach her to walk!
Trust me its better that way! She will be much less clumsy
She will take enough time to explore and will learn to be me more careful.
Her spine will be more ready to support her and more developed to support her falls.
Dont rush her...give her time...it will happen...and then the trouble begins
good luck
Thanks for your info, I am a first time mum so do not have anything to compare to only friends who have lo's at same age. Hearing from mums who are in the same boat makes me feel better and means I do not go running back to the Gp
She is happy to stand (in fact she prefers it to sitting at the mo!) but can't stand on her own and will not move.
My HV told me that bum shufflers don't tend to crawl at all and are often late walkers as they have found a perfectly good way to get around!
My god son is 4 months younger than my LO and is practically walking, i do compare them although I shouldn't - it's difficult!
Oh, and my baby is fluent in what sound like Russian and Chinese- what clever little ones we have haha!!
Xxx
the twins DS2 he was 12months when he started walking but DD1 she started walking at 20 months and there 21 months now and there is no stoping her
I know how hard it is not to worry though, i had my FIL saying he thought there might be something wrong with her hips as she screamed when you tried to stand her up, she just refused to bear any weight whatsoever! Then we also had the fact that one of Lucy's little friends took her first independant steps on her 1st birthday (and she is a month younger than Lucy).
x x x
My sister now aged 33 was a bum shuffler and did not walk until 2 years old gp told my mum that bum shufflers are often late walkers and not to worry.
You are all so lovely on here xx
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