To think babies are learning to walk earlier than a few years ago?

[Earlywalker]

I go to a baby group and out of 6 mums I know (babies age 9-10 months) 5 of them are walking!

DD was the first one walking out of her group 5 years ago and she started at 11.5 months.

Spoke to a mum at soft play today with kids the same age and weirdly she randomly said the same thing, that babies she knows seem to be walking by 10 months - way earlier now than when her oldest was young.

Just curious is this true for mumsnet? Or just a weird coincidence out of my friends. Walking at 9-10 months seemed unheard of when my eldest was born!

Neither of mine walked until 18 months!! Every baby is different.

My ds is ten now and walked at 8 1/2 months!

DS is 15mo and not walking. Don’t know if that’s average or whatnot.

My mum has a theory that because babies aren’t places in their tummies anymore they seem to skip the crawling stage and go straight for pulling themselves up to a standing position. Both of mine were walking at 11 months, only one of them crawled.

I've had 4 kids.
1st was 9 months
2nd was 15 months
3rd was 13 months
4th was 11 months

All average I would say

My just 14 year old was walking at 7 months.

My 4 year old was walking at 9 months.

(And my 12 and 9 year olds were walking at 11 months)

It's in the genes I reckon.

Actually thinking about it, only 1 of the walking babies crawled first so your mum might be onto something there!

DD walked at 9 months, DS at 10. I started at 9.5 months and so did two of my cousins and that was a good 30 years ago!

DS started walking at 13 months - exactly the same as me 30 years earlier! I know plenty of babies over 1 not walking yet but not sure what the averages are. May well be true! I do have an older relative who is convinced babies these days are more advanced than they used to be.

Not especially- my DD walked fully (not just furniture surfing) at 13months- a month ago, my nephew walked at 9 months- he’s now 10
My niece was around a year - she’s 8
My neighbours child is 2, he walked at 15months
My friends son aged 2 walked at 10months
Baby group friend son is 12 months still not walking

I'm 44 and my Dmum still blames her arthritis on the fact that I upped and walked before 9 months old and she tripped over me the first time I did it.

My sister walked at 8 months and she's 55! My own kids were 12 13 16 months. I reckon the baby didn't bother as siblings brought stuff over.

NotUmbongoUnchained interesting theory, my little one did lots of yummy time, slept on her tummy a lot from a young age and just loved crawling

I think dd walked around 9 or 10 months. Her cousins who were born 3 months later, one has recently started walking at 15 months and the other is not even crawling at 15 months let alone waking.

Maybe it's because babies are put into standing positions more than sitting, jumperoos are very popular rather than bouncy chairs.

6 is too small a sample size to draw any conclusions. I still think 10 months is unusually early to walk.

Mine are 4 and 3 and both walked at 12 months. They were the some of the earliest amongst the babies I know/groups I am part of. I’d say the average was around 14/15 months.

This is totally anecdotal but the smaller babies in my baby groups seemed to walk earlier. The bigger babies seemed to walk later - maybe they needed to develop more strength to support themselves? My babies were fairly big (8.4 and 9lbs at birth) and walked at 14 and 16 months.

DD is nearly 15 walked dead on 11 months, she did not crawl or bum shuffle. There is a link between not crawling and processing disorders, she has a severe visual processing disorder. It is all very complex how different parts of the brain develop at different rates in different children.

My sisters daughter walked at 9 months she is quite tall not sure if that’s got anything to do with it. My 4 boys were all a year except ds3 who was 19 months due to some joint issues he’s no problem mobilising now though so you’d never know, I was 18 months as I fell and hurt my hip when I was cruising apparently wasn’t keen to get up on my feet for a few months afterwards also was a bum shuffler not a crawler.

My 15yo walked at 9mo.

10mo is very early tho, especially for five out of six. Just shows what you can do with maths, eh?

Flippin Yes heavier babies need to develop more muscle strength to be able to walk.
I didn't walk until I was nearly 2.

My ds sat up unassisted at 4months, crawled perfectly well at 5.5 months but only for just two months. He stood up and held on and walked fro. 7.5 months but walked at exactly 10 months. All my friends who have babies say this was the exception but I have only one DC so cant compare

My dc walked the average year old, except oldest ds who walked at 9 months. Interesting his ds also walked early, confidently cruising at 7 months!!
Wasn't a baby 5 mins it seemed!!

Babies have always walked early. Younjust see more of them now than previous generations due to baby friendly places and classes/groups.

Also the generations before used to keep most of us in buggys or prams or out cots so we weren't up and about as much at all.