My 7 monthold just started walking......Help!

[chapsmum]

My (Nearly) 7 month old is walking round the room holding on to the furniture and my mother is having kittens as she thinks it will make him bow legged! surely he wouldnt do it if he wasnt ready? He's never had a walker, started crawling at 5mnths, an rekon he'll be off to uni within the year at this rate!!
Is it ok???

Another early walker here. Definitely not bowlegged (if anything a bit knock-kneed atm). At the time I thought it was pretty great, but then you just have to start chasing them around that much earlier!

yes it's interesting about the speech and walking. DS2 has a pal who is just a week younger than him and she had a hip problem which meant she was a very late stander and didn't walk till she was 22mo or so IIRC (she walks fine now).
But yes, when all she could do was sit there or bum shuffle, say at 14-16 mo, she would say loads (eg request a drink). DS2 would just drag over the nearest chair and climb on the counter top lol. Why bother to talk when you can fetch!
His speech is good now btw.

Yes I am sure there is a link between walking and talking development - both my dds were late walkers (relatively, at 14 and 15 months) but early talkers. They were fairly ahead in their physical development until they discovered talking, then all that movement stuff took a back seat! Am very interested to see which way ds goes - he's just starting to verbalise now.

Now that he's got walking sussed, though, he will be able to give his attention to talking - as you say chapsmum, get that uni place ready for him

Chaps you cant stop them. You have my sympathy as Ds was exactly the same. crawling at 5mths crusing at 6.5 and walking properly down the street by 8.5mths. also agree on early walker late talker. DS is 2.3yrs now and only started with words at 22mths and now talks non stop but about half is not comprehendsble.

My DTs go against theory of walking and talking. They were both up at 8 months, fully walking at 10 months. DT1 was chattering away by 18 months, sentences the whole shebang. DT2... well as long as he's fed.......... lol

I never thought of the early walker later talker thing, but yes agreed. Child proof everything!!!!

wow - what a wee star! that must look hilarious. my ds started walking at 11 months, but he is v tiny, and for days after i was taken aback every time i saw my 'baby' tottering about the place - it just looked wrong somehow! i would love to see a walkimg 6 month old.

What fun! My 1st baby walked and talked very early and at 12 has very straight legs. I got that from my mum too. Just watch out he doesn't pile his toys in one corner and climb over the side of his cot.