Development Survey

[Andysotones]

We have been sent a survey ahead of our daughter's 12 month checkup.

You don't have to be a trained professional to see my daughter is bright and alert, so inquisitive and at times you can see the 'cogs spinning' in her mind. However, this survey has all these really specific actions they are asking if she performs. We are still about 6 weeks from her first birthday, so there is time for developments, but every question you can't answer yes to you naturally causes concern.

We have to take it with a pinch of salt right? I mean, we know two babies almost the same age and one has already started walking (ours can't) whereas the other only started clapping about two weeks ago, our daughter has been doing that for longer than I can remember. All babies develop different things at different times, they wouldn't expect the vast majority of the questions to be ticked 'yes', right?

Six weeks is a huge amount of time for development at that age, but for most ASQs (assuming that's the form you've got), somewhere between 3.5-5 boxes in a category (in any combination of 'yes' and 'sometimes') is 'development appears to be on track'.

Anecdotally, it's a very rare baby that gets all yeses in all the categories, and quite common for a baby to score a little lower in a category or two that they just aren't that bothered about right now.