not crawling/walking

[umchuck]

My 9month old daughter has absolutely no interest in moving at all. She is very happy just sitting and playing with her toys. All here littles friends are crawling, almost walking or simply dragging themselves about. I shouldn't be worried should I? Should I take her to more playgroup typr things so she can see other kids 'moving' about? or will she just get up and walk one day......

Babies develop at their own rates, definitely nothing to worry about if not crawling at 9 months. Neither of mine crawled until 10 months, both walked at 13 months. Of course exercise and mental stimulation are great, if you have the time and energy to increase it, but may not speed up her crawling/walking!

Neither of mine moved until well after their first birthdays, neither crawled (both bum shufflers), dd walked at about 18 months, ds at 21 months. At 3 and 5 years old you'd never know they took so long!

I can remember being anxious that all their friends were walking but there's nothing you can do about it!

ds1 was like this and walked at about 14 months. He hated being on his tummy, crawled about twice at about 11 months and tried to climb the stairs once.

ds2 is 9 months, crawling like mad and pulling himself up on all the furniture/nearest trouser leg. He's constantly falling and bumping his head, cue lots of tears.

I look back and think ds1 was a much easier situation to deal with, just sat playing with his toys putting his arms out to be lifted up if he wanted to move. Don't worry about it, they all do things at their own pace.

Neither of mine crawled until around their 1st birthdays and walked around 15/16 months. All my friends babies were early crawlers & walkers & I remember being anxious about it too!

Try not to worry, and make the most of it. DD had been sitting unaided for all of a month at that age, and that was what she did for another five months. She sat, she laid down, and had no way to transition between one and the other. The thing that concerned me most was that she would NOT bear weight on her legs at all. At thirteen months she got herself from lying to sitting for the first time, at fourteen months she pulled up to standing for the first time (with no interim stage of bearing weight while held by an adult), a week later she crawled, and two months later she was walking. She perfected standing up without having to pull up before she took a single step, so didn't go through the 'falling down in middle of room and being unable to get up' stage (I KNOW she practiced in secret, I caught her once when she thought I was asleep!) Basically did things in a slightly odd order, and a little late, but once she got past the first wobbly few steps she was a very good accomplished walker, caught up in no time with very little falling over. If I had JUST been able to relax it would have been fantastic, by the time she was mobile she had the first inklings of sense and DIDN'T get into anything and everything, and we didn't have frustration and constant tumbles from an early walker.

Don't worry and there's nothing you can do about it. My DD is 2yrs and 1month and still can't walk on her own!!! Peads say no problems, she'll get there in her own time.

You don't need to worry.
DS didn't even think about moving around, or crawling until he was 10 or 11 months and walking until about 15 months.

oh, and ds went to nursery from 6mo, with lots of mobile children, didn't make him an earlier mover!

Ds1 and ds2 were crawling at 7mths and 8mths. Dd was completely immobile until 12mths+ when she eventually started shuffling on her bum. At 14mths she isn't walking either. She goes to toddler groups twice a week and it really hasn't made any difference. It's just one of those milestones that they reach in their own time.

hi umchuck. my dd did not move at 9 months. she started a kind of 'commando' style at around 10 months. she crawled 'properly' at a year now she's 14 months and started walking two days ago and hasn't sat down since!!!