To wonder how people get their babies to walk?

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All my DC have been late walkers. There are 10 month old babies everywhere walking around while my DC won't take their first steps till they are 1.5 year olds. Am I missing a big secret somewhere?

I have twins. One was walking at 11 months, one at 16 months
Strangely I found the trampoline with the bar really good as it helped get her balance and have fun bouncing

One nephew started walking at 10 months but was behind at talking (even now, at almost 3, you can’t really converse with him) while another started talking at the same age but then didn’t walk until 18 months. It’s just variation.

Every baby is different. My earliest walker was my latest talker. My first ds was riding a bike without stabilizers age 3, my second couldn't do that until he was 7.

DD didn't attempt to crawl till 13 months, and didn't walk till 18 months. She's still a very cautious child at 8.

DS didn't bother walking till 15 months because he could bum shuffle like the wind.

It's really not something you need to worry about.

Just think how much money you’re saving on shoes!😂

There’s such a large range of normal for when babies start walking. IIRC my DC were all around 15 months when they started their first independent steps (they all started cruising a few months before walking).

As long as you’re providing them opportunities to move around - floor space to play on, things to pull themselves up on etc - then they’ll do it when they’re developmentally ready to. It’s not really something you can force them to do.

They're all different and will do it when they're ready. DD was walking at 9.5 months. DS didn't take his first steps until he was 16 months. He also never crawled and didn't rollover until the same week that he walked. These days he is a very sporty child with good coordination.

My 15mo isn't walking and it's all everyone goes on about!!! He's a bum shuffler and never learned to crawl either

DD is 16 months and a bum shuffler. I assumed she was just going to eventually walk and miss crawling but she started crawling 2 weeks ago so you never know what's going to happen!

Early walkers are a pain because they have no sense age 8 months. If they're 18 months they can understand 'no' a bit more and get into fewer sticky situations!

Absolutely this!

I have had both extremes and early walking is a bit of a nightmare. The "normal" range is very wide. Try not to worry.

My daughter was proper RUNNING when she was 8 months old and could climb anything like a monkey. It's a hell I wouldn't wish on anyone. Far, far too young. She also never crawled. My son loved to crawl and he took his first steps on his first birthday, walking well by 13 months.

Enjoy it I miss the days mine sat still. All walked by 9-10 months could climb by a year I seem to spend my entire life stopping them from killing themselves! Especially DS 18 months old and thinks he's a mountain climber and my dds toy kitchen is his everest

Be careful what you wish for 😂😂😂

My ds walked at 18 months (crawled fast before that) but once he could walk he could do everything, turn, pick up objects, run within a week etc so he looked like all the other 18 month old's who had been walking for a few months. My niece was 10 months old when she walked she fell constantly and was covered in bruises for months.... late walking isn't the end of the world.

They do it when they do it. Over here we've had the following...
Dd1: 19 months
Dd2: 16 months
Dd3: 10 months 😳

My son walked much earlier than my daughter. He was bigger all over, so he could reach more things to pull himself up on much earlier. He also has much less physical common sense - I couldn’t leave him on the sofa until a lot older as he would just throw himself off. My daughter was walking holding onto things a lot longer than she needed to, and one day just walked like a pro. My son more threw himself in the general direction he wanted to go and hoped it worked out.

They all do stuff at their own pace, and in their own way. And while it can feel like a long time now, it’s weeks and months. People are oddly competitive about these things - walking and potty training seems to bring out the worst of it in my experience. Don’t let them get you down.

My twins were polar opposites - my boy twin was walking and climbing and whacking everything he could at 9.5 months, and falling over constantly because his head was too big for his body. (Constantly covered in bruises!!!!). His twin sister was lying on her back, playing with her feet, chatting away and singing until she was 16 months. They do their own thing!!!

I had a chat with an old nursery friend recently.

She remembers picking hers up the first day and seeing my 7 monther zooming round and thinking hers would never walk. I remember picking mine up seeing hers sitting quietly and “reading” a book to themselves and thinking mine would never stay still long enough to even look at a book.

Guess what? Hers learned to walk and mine learned to read. They all reach the same stage at some point. Like nobody cares except the parents what age a child potty trained.

12-22 months is the normal age for walking.

Children walk when they're ready. As long as your LO is being given opportunities to practice (i.e. given time to be on the floor) it shouldn't be a problem until later.

My 15mo isn't walking and it's all everyone goes on about!!!

Yep same here - it feels like most days someone is asking me if 15 mo DS is walking yet. I'm always polite but it's doing my head in that people keep going on about it! He's a demon cruiser and I know he'll do it when he's ready.

My DS walked at 10 months, 8 months adjusted. As a pp has said, the sense of an 8mo is nonexistent - the idea of risk is absent. I spent all my days haring after a disappearing figure, trying to keep him in one piece. He was a climber as well. Still is.

Its genetics. Twin boy and girl. Boy walked 10months, girl was 18months plus. She used tonsend her brother to get things

Both of mine were late walkers. My eldest could actually talk before he walked. I really worried about him walking late. By the time I had my youngest, I expected another late walker, so never really worried about it.

They get there when they get there and unless there is something causing you concern of a more serious problem, then you just have to give them opportunity and leave them to it.

I miss the days of just being able to plonk my kids down on the play mat and they sat still!!

Its genetics. Twin boy and girl. Boy walked 10months, girl was 18months plus. She used tonsend her brother to get things

How is that genetics? If they’re twins their genetics would be similar surely?

Boy-girl twins (or any non-identical twins) are no more similar genetically than any other siblings - so presumably she meant that their upbringing and opportunities had been the same, so the different walking ages must have been innate.

For the first few months you worry about them breathing and feeding, then you worry about their routine, then you worry that they'll never eat... then you worry about them walking and talking and holding a pencil...
When they're at preschool and you can't tell the early walkers & talkers from the late ones, you wonder why you wasted so much energy worrying about this stuff... but we all do.

18 months is ok as long as there is development happening: crawling, cruising, bum shuffling, standing.