My daughter is eight months old. She is my first baby, and she is wonderful. She is happy, bright and sociable. She loves singing and eating and she loves her toys.
We go to various baby groups which she really enjoys. She is also in nursery two mornings a week. However, I can help but notice that she is the only baby (literally the only one!) who is not moving around yet. The other babies are all around the same age as her (some are even younger) and are at least bum shuffling or commando crawling along the floor. Not my daughter. She's happy to just sit in the one place, playing with toys and watching the others.
I wouldn't be so concerned if she was trying to crawl but not quite managing it yet. My concern is that she doesn't seem remotely interested in it! If I put her on her tummy she will push up with her arms and kind of half heartedly kick her legs, but she will never voluntarily roll over to her front in an attempt to move (she can roll - I've seen her do it a couple of times - it seems she just chooses not to). My friends baby is two weeks younger and every time you put him down, he's flipping onto his tummy and fighting to crawl.
I do understand that babies do things at different times and I am trying very hard not to compare too much. But I'm not exaggerating when I say she is the only baby in all these groups who is not able to move around yet. My husband thinks I'm worrying about nothing and that she'll crawl or walk when she's good and ready. He says I've maybe just been "unlucky" that my experience is that babies of her age we have come across are moving around - that it doesn't mean they all can, and that she is falling behind. I just feel like these other babies are changing all the time but she seems to have plateaued a little bit.
Any thoughts?? Please be gentle. I'm an anxious mother, I know that really. I just want to help her if I can!