10.5 month not rolling or crawling

[CalamityHouse]

I put my 10.5 month old dd down in her cot at night and when I go in in the morning she is always in the sme position. I am sure my son used to move around the bed at night.
She doesn't roll, sat at 6.5 months, reaches out for things, has been trying to crawl for ages and cannot get into the sitting position from lying. She hates being on her tummy.
Do any of you have babies like this? Is it normal?

[eddm]

Hi Calamity
My ds is 11 months and has only recently got the hang of crawling and still doesn't go very far. He has been wriggling around and trying different means of moving for some time now - got really excited the day he bum-shuffled four feet but he never did it again (not that far anyway). He hated being on his tummy until he learnt to roll; I think because we put babies on their backs to sleep they aren't used to being on their tummies and hate being stuck there. Everyone told me a. be grateful he's not crawling yet, you can't take your eyes off them for a second when they do and b. they'll do it in their own good time; maybe your dd is concentrating on other things, like talking? Is she a big baby ? was also told that they take longer because they need more strength to move around (ds is big for his age and very, very solid).
HTH

[strangerthanfiction]

CH, some of these things were the same with my dd. She always hated being on her tummy, still isn't keen at 20 months! She sat around the same time (which is relatively early) as yours, though she did roll at around 5 months but not as efficiently as her mates. She never crawled and in fact never even really tried to. But she did get into walking holding onto our hands from around 8-9 months old. My opinion is that there are some horizontal babies and there are some vertical ones. The horizontal ones are good rollers, like their tummies and will crawl. The vertical ones sit well quite quickly and will go straight to walking rather than crawling. Have you tried letting herself pull up to standing holding onto your hands? You might be surprised. Contrary to what eddm says about size, my dd is quite small and very light.

[AussieSim]

I wouldn't worry about crawling too much as my DS didn't crawl till he was 12mths and only walked at 16mths. Seems a little late on the rolling though I guess - do you practice rolling with your DD? When you say sitting at 6.5mths, was that on her own getting into a sitting position - if so then that is v early - my DS was at about 9 mths. Probably nothing to worry about really. I try really hard not to get caught up in my DS's slowness in development as he is healthy and happy.

[papillon]

dd now sitting at 7.5 months.. but has to be watched. Does not move in bed either. Her female cousin who is only 2 weeks younger started rolling in bed much earlier.

Alot of it is personality I believe.

[rsv1000r]

As my mother is fond of saying "they call all do it by the time they go to school!"

Don't worry too much about comparing development with others - your dd is an individual and as strangerthanfiction says - some babies don't bother with crawling at all and just get up and walk.

[frogs]

Yeah, sounds normal to me.

Neither of my older two ever rolled, and dd2 (6 months) shows no sign of doing so either. Dd1 couldn't get into a sitting position by herself until after her 1st birthday. Dd1 crawled sometime around 15 months, walked at 18, while ds started bottom shuffling at around 13 months, but didn't walk till 20 months.

Both are perfectly normal, though they were slow to acquire knock-on skills such as hopping and pedalling a tricycle. Actually, it's a huge advantage to have a late-mobile baby, as you can plonk them down on the floor and go off for a cup of tea while other people's 10-month olds are trashing the joint. By the time they do walk they then have the rudiments of common sense, so you avoid the whole 'walking disaster area' thing that happens with early walkers.

Apparently age of walking has a strong genetic component, so it might be worth finding out at what age you and dh/dp reached these milestones.

Otherwise you just need to develop a thick skin and a line in sarky comments to get rid of old ladies/other mums going "Oh, isn't she walking yet?" I found answers along the lines of, "No, she's too busy solving differential calculus/thinking about European Monetary Union/finding a cure for cancer" worked pretty well.

[pickledbeetle]

I had 1 who ran at 9 months (Still waiting for him to learn to walk and he's 14 years now!)and another who didn't move at all until 18months and still takes forever to do anything!

[Fio2]

If you are that worried I would ask to be reffered for physio. They will give you some exercises to do at home with your baby to encourage the gross motor skills