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

My later walkers were bum-shufflers

12 mths, 14mths, 15 mths, 17 mths

DD seemed to buck most of the trends - she was a relatively late walker, and a relatively late talker. She has specialised in worrying me for months, and then suddenly doing things rather well. She first sat up unaided when I plonked her on a friend's floor and said 'look, she just doesn't stay upright at all ...' upon which she sat there without a wobble for fifteen minutes (she was eight months old).

She learned to crawl and then to walk at a time when she was also packing on the weight to move from the below the 50th to above the 75th centile, at a time when she was barely eating - I have no idea how that worked!

I was convinced she would be a bum-shuffler, as I was and apparently it's strongly hereditary - never did a jot of it though. And I was a 70s front-sleeping baby - guess that gene didn't get passed on. I 'only' walked at 15 months though, so maybe that one did.

Hunker, there was something in an issue of Junior a while back about the importance of crawling to babies' general development, can't remember what the gist was though. I just think it's incredible that development can vary so much, in 'normal' children who will all eventually end up walking and talking. I met a commando-crawling 7.5 month old before Christmas, and it was strange to think that my DD was still flat on her back like a stranded beetle at that age.

DS 15 months unaided,
walked holding onto us from 12 months but took forever to figure it out, he was lighting fast crawler so seemed to think tottering around a waste of energy

My almost-15mth-walker bumshuffled. I'd forgotten that.

DD1 21 months but was talking in proper sentances by then.
DD2 18 months also talked early.
DD3 15 months.
Doctors weren't concerned about about DD1 until she was 18 months. But after a few sessions with a paeditrician they decided she was fine. When she started walking she did it properly and didn't go threw the toddling stage.