Is my baby growing okay?

[Laura55]

Recently I’ve been questioning if my baby is growing how a baby should grow. She’s a big girl (her dad is 6’5) so at 10 months I have to give her 18-24 mths clothes. She’s very active and healthy, no vaccines but never caught a cold or a bug or anything like that. She doesn’t crawl but she kind of just sits on her belly and drags herself on the bed (if that makes any sense lol). She gets up in her cot and she holds on to it and just sits up by herself but doesn’t walk (still very early so not very worried about that). She plays with toys but she gets bored and picks up the remote because she wants the tv on. I think I taught her to watch peppa pig on tv because when she was 6-7 months I was a single mother 24/7 with not much support so that was the only way I could keep her calm to clean/cook or just take a shower. The way I imagine a 10 month old is literally playing and knowing how to do certain things and seeing their little brain develop and getting smarter, I feel like my daughter isn’t interested in playing or just sitting down to play.
Also when it comes to food, she had 8 teeth and the next ones very close to coming out but I’m so scared to let her eat by himself. Made her toast with a bit of butter and honey the other day and cut it in small cubes and she ate fine but my anxiety levels were going highhhh. If anyone knows any foods to start with independent eating or any toys your babies were interested in or just any cute ones that help develop their little brains I’d appreciate it.
So is my baby developing okay? Is she meant to be a certain way at this age?

[firstimemamma]

Just because you and people you know had no vaccines and haven't been affected doesn't mean it's safe and not does doing some research. There are many, many other people outside of who you know who have suffered needlessly just through not being vaccinated. My fiancé is a paramedic and you honestly don't want to know some of the things he has seen. Even children who do pull through from these horrible illnesses and survive can be left with life-changing consequences afterwards e.g limb amputation.

[firstimemamma]

'Nor does' not 'not does'

[FelicityPike]

Selfish idiot!
Please don’t anyone @ me. You all know deep down that they are!

[Iminaglasscaseofemotion]

So tou looked into vaccinations enough to decide that you don't want to vaccinate your child (not a food decision), but it sounds like you don't have the first clue about child development, started foods etc and at 10 months are calling your child lazy because she isn't walking yet

[Flatwhite32]

I was going to offer advice on this post until I read not vaccinated. Sorry OP, but I am going to judge you. Let's hope your child doesn't come near an immune suppressed child. Your baby won't develop normally if she catches measles then gets brain damage.

[Iminaglasscaseofemotion]

Loads of mistakes in there, but I'm sure you can work it out.

[TheLovleyChebbyMcGee]

Please vaccinate your baby. Have you seen the state of the world lately? That's without 1 vaccine. Imagine how bad it would be without any vaccines!!!

It's selfish to rely on herd immunity when so many cannot be vaccinated for health reasons.

[mynameiscalypso]

@Iminaglasscaseofemotion

So tou looked into vaccinations enough to decide that you don't want to vaccinate your child (not a food decision), but it sounds like you don't have the first clue about child development, started foods etc and at 10 months are calling your child lazy because she isn't walking yet

I feel really sorry for this poor baby.

[NoWordForFluffy]

I've reported as I'm not convinced by the whole thing.

[MrsJemimaDuck]

Death is not the only outcome if your baby catches a disease that we vaccinate for. Many can leave your child with permanent damage. Thankfully, because of vaccines, how terrible these diseases are have left our consciousness. But if you found someone who suffered and survived, I’m sure you can find nearly no one who would tell you they would prefer to have had the disease over the vaccine. My parents had many of these diseases in childhood. I read my great-grandmother’s diary—about the time my grandfather had measles. He was so sick, and she was terrified. Guess who is vaccinated? Me and my child.

It’s breathtakingly selfish—not just to release your child into the world, where she could infect someone who is vulnerable, but also because as her mother, you are meant to do what you can do to protect her from harm when she is too young to make the decision for herself. No reputable doctor would advise against vaccinations. And if you think you know better, I just can’t take the rest of your post seriously.

[MsEllany]

I’d love to see the ‘research’ you did that’s better than decades of research by medical professionals and immunologists .

You might not like being called an idiot but sorry you are. I’ve never met an anti-vaxxer in the wild before.

[peonia]

This is an article about a man who caught polio when he was six. Sometimes it helps to think about an individual and the impact on their life when it comes to the issue of vaccinations

www.theguardian.com/society/2020/may/26/last-iron-lung-paul-alexander-polio-coronavirus

[MasksGlovesSoapScrubs]

Eh? You're anxious about her eating on her own but quite happy for her to be unvaccinated?..

She also shouldn't be having honey under one. Change it to maple syrup.

She's only 10 months so don't expect too much.

[henrykissingher]

can you post links to the vaccine research you did please?

[OhToBeASeahorse]

• a 10 month old in 18-24 month clothing
• honey
• vaccines.

Interesting array of details there.

[Mylittlesandwich]

I did think that seahorse my DS was 10lbs 10oz at birth and had followed the 99.8th percentile and he's 10 months old in 12-18 month clothing...