I am a bit concerned about my DD's development. She is 9 months (today!), and I can't help comparing her to my now 2.5yr old DS who could do more than my DD at this age.
She doesn't crawl yet - well she does move backwards but she doesn't like being on her tummy for that long, so she gives up trying. DS was crawling by 8 months and also pulling up to standing up and standing against something without any support. DD nowhere near this.
She gets tired pretty quickly and naps sporadically throughout the day and you can never predict how long she is going to nap for. Sometimes she gets woken up before she has had enough sleep and then she is tired and grumpy till she next naps. My DS had 2 predictable naps in the day and was always a happy baby.
She is not interested in her solids really. Some days she is but most days not and it's only the evening meal time that she is interested. I did BLW with both DC and DS was far more advanced in his self feeding than DD is, and more interested in food (although now he is fussy with food and terrible table manners). I have tried spoonfeeding DD too to see if she prefers that but, she hates that too.
She won't amuse herself for more than about 5 minutes when we are at home. When we are somewhere new, she is sufficiently distracted and will play for awhile. At home she just wants me to carry her around. Again DS happily played anywhere with anything for a long long time.
She can clap though. Something DS didn't do will way into toddlerhood.
Should I be worrying? I know every baby is different, but I worry it's something I'm doing wrong, or are second babies slower developmentally, because they get less time spent on them? Things like meal times - with DS i used to have the whole day if required for him to practise his eating. Whereas now he can't wait to get off the table and so I have to take DD off the table as well as I can't really sit with just her if we are out and about. Anyhow, DD doesn't have the patience to sit at the table like DS used to.
I bf, co-sleep and sling DD, and I thought she's be a more contented baby than DS who wasn't bf (was fed expressed milk through bottle for nearly a year as he didn't latch on), only started co-sleeping at 6 months and was never slinged.
WOuld love to knwo what your babies did at 9 months, as I only had DS to compare to.