still not standing at nearly 14 months. cause for concern?

[mommie]

my dd is a bum shuffler and has never stood solo. Doc has said he will see her in Feb to see how she is getting on, but i am worrying constantly. does anyone have any experience of this? i am encouraging her, but she just doesn't seem to like weight bearing. she's quite heavy. (she has never crawled, tho neither did i or my brother apparently, tho' he was walking at 14 months)

will/can she pull herself up at all?
I would think 18 mths would be an ok point to wait til tbh
Is everything else ok with her, if this is the only thing I'd wait for the doc in Feb, but if you are worried about this and something else then push for a referral to physio.
My dd had some other problems which prevented her from walking and she was not referred to physio until 18 mths even with a clinical diagnosi of a problem.
HTH

my ds will be 20 months tomorow. He pulls himself up, stands on his own before collapsing, will walk a few steps towards us but won't walk on his own. I've resigned myself to the fact that he just loves crawling but it is very frustrating when people gasp that he isn't walking yet!

no piffle, she can't pull herself up. the doc saw here a month ago and mentioned scans and physio (and a v slight chance of cerebral palsy - hence the panic), but said it might turn out to be fine in which case february would be better for a reassessment. i now can't get cp out of my head at all. i think my dd is fine but being a FTM, i don't really know. she babbles, has no real words. is that normal? blimey, i am in a right lather...it's making me quite depressed

My dd didnt pull herself to stand until she 13 months and that was only because I had another baby and if she didnt pull herself up then she didnt see what was going on. She also bumb shuffled at about 13 months too. Until that point she never made an attempt to move she just played with whatever was put in front of her.

When we took ds to a paed just after he was born he mentioned the fact that she bumb shuffled and his response was it is usually because they are double/lax jointed and their ligaments are too soft to support the weight of their skeletons. I also bumb shuffled was lax jointed and didnt walk till 18 months.

She didnt walk till 191/2 months and now at nearly three shes fine apart from having flat feet and really lax ankle joints but insoles in her shoes sort that for her.

So please don't worry sounds like you gp's not got a clue.

My dd also didn't say anything at this stage either except for babbling so please dont worry just enjoy her.

thanks for that longwaytogo - makes me feel a little calmer. it was all getting a bit much in the run up to xmas

my dd was a bum shuffler and never walked unitl 19 months, got annoyed with the amount of people that passed comment on it, I know its hard ( ive been through all your fears and worries) but try not to be too concerned yet.
For the record I am glad that she was a late walker ( not at the time though)as she has always been a fantastic talker and is very clear probably all that time just sitting watching people move there lips maybe? - I know children her age (3)who cannot even string sentances together so I am really proud now - i do think that children shine at different things at different ages! Now I have a 9 month old ds and I am willing him not to move as apart from the fact that I would like him to be a baby forever (selfish i know) I appreciate what a precious time this is and how much easier he is mamnage without moving ! hope that helps - oh and I never walked unitl I was 19 months and my HV did mumble something about it running in the family though don't know how true this is.

My DD didn't move at all until she was 14 months old, when she crawled, but couldn't lift her head to see where she was going. She walked at 18 months.
She was diagnosed as having low muscle tone - everything a bit floppy. She is now 4.5yrs and seems fine, although I think she runs slowly and was late to jump, hop etc.

a friend of ours, their dd was really stationary - did not bum shuffle til over age of two from memory... and was eventually diagnosed with a short tendon problem and wore corrective boots, now at 5 you would never know, she took her first steps alone at her sisters christening - she was just waiting for an audience of hundreds!
So remember however long it takes, they catch up very quickly.
Babbling at 16mths is ok, how do you feel she is when around other babies?
It was always very obvious to me that my dd was delayed, although its best not to compare sometimes you just have to!

my mates little girl is 17 months and has started weightbearing, cruising and taking 1 or 2 steps all in the space of a week. Loads of time yet, dont panic x

Is there a history of slow locomotion in your family, mommie? What age did you walk?

DD2 didn't crawl until 12 months and didn't walk until 19 months, but neither did I (walking that is, dunno about crawling). She talked quite early but DS2, who was walking at about 15 months, was pretty monosyllabic until 2½ - he would say "car! bus! lorry!" - by 3+ he was talking a lot but still had speech therapy because lots of sounds came out wrong. (He is 12 now, at grammar school, loves sport.)

these messages are v helpful. i do want to enjoy my dd and not have that time constantly blurred by worry, so other people's histories of their children are very interesting to me. thanks

Mommie - didn't you post about something similar only a short while back? I only ask because I know a lot of us gave you very similar advice and experiences on your previous thread and I believe a lot of those opinions will be just as valid now - so if you can, search for your old thread and refer back to some of the comments you received there too.

Supose sometimes some fresh reasurrance is nice isn't it mommie?

yes anniebear, absolutely - i know it's only a brief time since my last thread, but seems like a long time when you are worrying.