i know i should take my name opff the list but i am sooo lazy As some of you will know dd (8) has severe GDD and we fiorst started noticing problems when she didnt meet milestones, gross motor inparticular. NOw I have a 6 yr old and an 8 month old and apparently this is what an 8 month old should be doing gross motor wise

"8 month old, first week

Many babies are pulling themselves up now, grabbing on to any available piece of furniture and then standing while holding onto it in a wobbly way. Some babies walk as early as eight months, others not until well into their second year. All are still well within the normal range. Most babies work out how to stand up fairly easily on their own. The thing that stumps many of them is sitting back down again! When your little one pulls himself to a stand and then cries for you to sit him back down, don't rush to pick him up. Instead, show him how to bend his knees so his journey back down doesn't end with such a thud.
"

Now if I wasnt any the wiser this would most probably make me panic and my 6 yr old walked at 10 months ffs

and my point is...I imagine an 8 month old pulling up to stand and even walking is unusual and not really an average age at all

Unsubscribe immediately Fio!! It's full of huns on there FGS!

i have only ever come acriss one v8 mnth old walker, and as i ran toddler group at work i knew a lot of kids that age!

just remember- ds1 walked at 10 mnths. hardly the sign of a smooth ride is it?! (little so and so painted ds3's penis with nail varnish yesyerday ).

my 5 mnth old nephew pulls himself up. made me

oh I havent actually been on the boards I suigned up ina moment of hormonal madness when pregnant to get development emails

and so true peachy about the smooth ride bit, oh to be naive again eh?

But I ran a toddler group too years ago and I go to a group at ds1s school one morning a week and most the 8 month olds are still wobbly sitting let alone walking.

My 16th month old can't/won't walk without me holding his hand - but can climb the big slide and throw himself down quite happily. I think for him because he is NT he likes the comfort of having his hand held whereas DS1 who is ASD was off like a shot.

DS1 wouldn't even bear weight on his legs very much when he was 8 months! DS2 was pulling up at about 10 months I think, despite talipes! Now DS1 is hugely advanced on DS2 physically, even though there's only 16 months between them.

I get more of those developmental emails than I care to consider and they make me roll my eyes and often sigh. I really should just block them.

DS1 has always been on the go and was crawling on his belly at 4.5 months and cruising the furniture well before 8 months (though didn't walk until 14.5 months). DS2 didn't walk until almost 20 months. I've just skimmed through the rash of emails that say how, now he has had his 2nd birthday he'll be putting 2 words together. I'm still waiting for some flaming consonants from him

I still get those emails (and what's even worse is they're the BabyCenter ones IFKWIM). I signed up when I was pregnant with DS1 (four today!), and just haven't got round to unsubscribing..

Got a great one from them last week - how to tell if your DC might have motor problems.....

DS1 did cruise for ages before he walked (around 15 months), and it always seems on BC (not that I go on there anymore) that the babies over there are SO advanced, nearly every single one.

DS2 can pull himself up now (started at about 16 months), but has only just learnt how to get back down. He used to get stuck, which meant he did heaps of cruising, but now he's figured it out, he hardly cruises at all :-(.

Might get round to blocking them now....

M was no where near those milestones,didn't sit until 8/9 months barely crawled and walked at 14 months

I couldn't bear those emails--made me so depressed. I even stopped posting on my post-natal club thread here on mn, because I couldn't handle hearing how much other people's DCs could do, compared to DD

oh god yes keep away from NT babies/toddlers if you have any concerns about your own. Couldn't go near them with ds2 and ds3.

And then stupid HV's tell you to go along to M&T groups- they must have zero idea of what that's like when you have concerns. They need to put that in HV training

Luckily I have never had to have much to do with HVs as DD gets weighed etc at hospital dietitian's clinic. When I have seen our HV I have had to explain everything to her. BUT apparently we are getting a specially trained SN HV at the child development centre!

gawd I have had to come on and share this weeks gem with you!

"As long as your baby is making steady progress, you have nothing to worry about. And if anybody suggests otherwise, tell her that Einstein didn't talk until he was four years old"

[sghock]

that fucking einstein eh?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7388367.stm

1.5 fewer words - they really need to get out more