9 out of 10 babies are walking by 15 months

[Wallace]

Is this true? I read it somewhere (my sister's Dictionary of Symptoms I think) and thought it didn't sound quite right. It also went on to suggest that if a baby isn't walking by this age there is quite likely an underlying problem

Quick poll, when did yours walk?

ds - 12.5 months
dd - 15 months

No-one beating my 5yrs though are they!

One and only DD, 16 months.

I understood that the average for girls is 12 months and for boys 15 months - which would leave rather a lot of boys with potential 'underlying problems' if Wallace's sister's book was at all accurate.

DS1 could just crawl mightily - he only walked when he realised he could carry his drink and Bear if he walked

DS was 18 months he is now 2.5 and is fine so I would say the "underlying problems" part isnt right my Doctor said to me they would start worry until he was 2 as my sisters two were 10 and 11 months so I was a tad worried !

Think you might retain that crown for a while, TC

ds - 14 months

Sorry, that was a bit insensitive of me, some children will never walk and I realise that and am grateful for the small steps that my 5 year old is starting to take. Sorry for beiong momentarily insensitive, in my last post.

these are my charges
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13.5months
14 months
14 months
17 months (not even sitting at 12 months!)
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14 months
14.5 months

DS cruised from about 9-10 months and walked at 12 months about a week after his birthday.

Actually, I'm interested to know what people class as walking.

When you say x months - do you mean first unaided steps of own freewill or do you mean they were off and running as it were and diodn't really ever go back to crawling from that date.

DD2 took first steps at coming up to 8 months, had been cruising before that. However she kept falling and went back to crawloing before trying again. By 10 months she'd gotten over the falling and was walking properly.

Just interested what you guys mnean by walking.

I think if they are brilliant crawlers the stick that out longer also if they are a first child and dont see many children of the same age they then take a bit longer

personally i class walking as taking a few steps unaided...not 1 or 2 and faling into mummy... but walking a few meters across the floor

however the 1st step and actualy walking are not normally more than 2 / 3 weeks apart

with ds1 he was 11 months.
i think ds2 will be a lot longer, hes nearly 7 months and doesnt even roll over yet!! hes too lazy and has an older brother to everything for him.

Hmmm well mine took first step at 8 months, maybe it was 8.5 then and she walked normally (when I say normal she looked like charlie chaplin) as in didn't fall down and go into a crawl for a bit before walkign again, by an early 10 months.

Hmmm well mine took first step at 8 months, maybe it was 8.5 then and she walked normally (when I say normal she looked like charlie chaplin) as in didn't fall down and go into a crawl for a bit before walkign again, by an early 10 months.

Ds 17 months - let go and walked across a room
DD 13 months and so much faster and more confident than ds.

I'd class walking as 'using two feet to get around', ie not those first few steps which are more 'way to get mummy/daddy/everyone really really excited'.

I don't know if it's typical, but we really benefited in the end from having a late-ish walker - she perfected a load of other things first, so by the time she walked she could sit down without support and with absolute control, stand straight up without having to pull up, so none of that nonsense of falling over mid-floor and screaming for help ... I actually found her sneakily practising standing up without support when she thought I wasn't looking once (I'd passed out on the sofa).

age when they walked across a room: ds1 10 months and ds2 16 months.

My son took his first ever steps a week under 20 months old. He had orthopedic problems which made it hard for him to walk. Our physio told us that she didn't consider not walking to be a problem until two years old and didnt get seriously worried until a child was four and half years old!

Honestly a lot of babies especailly bum shufflers are late walking. Its nothing to do with intelligence or a sign of anything wrong. Although my son walked late he had very few falls.

Please dont worry if your child walks late

TeeCee - I'm assuming able to walk across a room unaided. If it's first steps then dd was 10 months, but she's now (at 11 months) spending more time walking than crawling. She can't yet get herself up without something to pull up on, but I don't think it will be much longer before she can.

Gottcha

None of mine did -- bottom-shufflers walk later.

DD1: 18 months
Ds: 20 months
Dd2: 19 months, and then only because I was so fed up with worn-out trousers that I put her out in the garden with a bare bum.

No underlying probs with any of them. Although they do all talk far too much...

LOL frogs. Yes, as well as dd1 having Down's syndrome she was also a bottom shuffler. Add lazy, stubborn and scared, and dislikes change to that and you cna see why we're only just getting there aged 5!

What kind of underlying problem? What a cheek.
Both of mine started walking at 16 months and I can't see how it's held them back in life!

TC (hi ) - it all happened in a rush with ds, he took his first unaided steps about a week before 14mo and was walking confidently within about 10 days.