DS 11m not standing at all

[littlefrog]

We?ve just been referred to the paediatrician because DS isn?t wanting to stand or take any weight on his legs. GP says his hips and spine are fine, but has never ever seen a baby like this before ? says they usually love standing, and that?s certainly been what I?ve seen with other babies.

Has anyone else had a child like this? What happened? What was it?

Part of me is completely unconcerned, because he?s a bright little boy, clapping and pointing and babbling and starting to understand what?s said to him, and part of me is absolutely frantic with worry because he?s not standing or crawling and has given up rolling (he rolled at 4 months, but stopped completely when he learned to sit ? at about 5.5months). He can sort of bottom shuffle, but he can?t get to where he wants to with it yet.

Please, does anyone have any reassuring stories?!

dont know if this is reassuring but my dd is almost 12 months and has only just started to crawl in last fortnight, since she has started crawling she has now started to try standing. before this the only movement would be a little rolling across floor but that was it! my nephew on other hand was up on his legs from an early age! x

lydia, did your dd stand (with you balancing/ supporting her) before 12 months? They don't seem bothered about the not crawling, it's the fact that he won't take weight on his legs, he lifts them up off the ground instead. None of the stiffness that babies usually seem to have.

A 12m old I know does not weight bear either. He sits perfectly and can get into crawling position but doesn't go anywhere. Rarely rolled over once he could sit and is generaly uninterested at the moment in standing up! He is in every other way what I would deem average for his age - clapping/waving/babbling/understanding etc. If you try to stand him up supported his legs just fold up under him too. I always think they will get there in their own time but your appt with paed can't hurt, just to be sure.
Sorry not much reassurance, just thought I would share

My ds didn't roll or crawl until 11 months, then didn't pull up and weight bear until 15 months. He wasn't interested in being stood up or trying to stand whilst holding his hands. He then finally decided to walk at 20 months. The walking happened very quickly btw. One day he took two little steps and the next day, he was walking up and down the kitchen.

HV had referred us to GP just to make sure that there was no underlying problem, which there wasn't.

He was well within the spectrum for "normal development" and it sounds like your ds is too from what you say.

Easy for me to say, but try not to worry!

Don't panic - some babies take a bit longer and he may well be within 'normal ranges' of development for his age. Bottom shuffling babies are often completely normal and just take time to develop their standing and walking - it may be because he has quite flexible joints. So try not to worry and the fact that he's got a paed opinion is good - hopefully all will be ok and will reassure you

Please don't worry yourself - your GP sounds a prick (sorry, I've had a whiskey & coke ). My HV referred DD because she wasn't weight bearing by 12 months, despite my insistence that she's just a lazy blighter.

Long and the short of it is that DD is now 21 months and has mastered the standing up and even walking holding hands etc, but she refuses to walk anywhere without encouragement. She'll do it when she's ready and people have stopped asking me now if she's "walking yet?"

Not standing at 11 months is pretty normal, i would imagine. I have met plenty of children of that age who aren't even crawling. Don't panic yet...

thanks SO much, I feel much better reading this (and after a night's sleep)

interesting that we can probably expect this to go on for a long time though, and that being late to crawl/stand tends to mean late to walk as well. So I'll have a baby for quite a while yet!

fingers crossed that the paed says he's fine...

she's only just started doing it with me supporting since she's been crawling. before thatif you tried to get her t stand she'd just raise her legs in a sitting position!
she had her 12 month(ish) assessment today, mentioned she's not really standing and they said its fine and not to worry!

Hi Little frog
My second ds was like this (he never rolled either) he could not stand or crawl at 12 months (could not sit up until at least 9 months also. I would not give it a second thought if he is bright and responsive. My ds finally walked at 19 months (crawled from about 14 months)- never really stood much before he walked either, just got up one day and walked. I since found out I was a late walker (22 months) so it may run in familys. My ds was and is an excellent talker (he's 3 now) and I have heard they can sometimes concentrate on one area of development. Please don't worry he is still well within the normal range for this.

Have only read the OP, but ds1 was referred by HV to GP at a little over 12 months because he didn't bear weight at all - he'd lift his feet up like a little frog if you tried to make him stand.

Over the weekend before the appointment (of course) he decided that he'd have a go after all and pulled himself up to standing! I think he walked at about 16 months.

When we saw the GP he was pretty unconcerned and thought the HV had over-reacted.

oh thank you, that is encouraging! purple turtle that's JUST what he does, he does turn himself into a little frog (didn't intend my nickname to be so appropriate!)

A word of caution - he may have low muscle tone, hypotonia, a harmless condition, used to be called Double Joints. If he does, he may need some physio or special supportive boots, from the physio, to help him bear weight. As long as he is sitting by 2, he will walk, just may need some help for his muscles. DD has this and she didn't weight bear until 20 months, walked at 2.5. She no longer has special boots but they helped her enormously. Try not to worry, easier said than done!

DD used to just collapse if you tried to stand her up (we called her spaghetti- or jelly-legs), bore no weight at all until she decided to pull up at 14 months. She crawled a week later and walked at 16 months (I don't know how typical this is, but she got good very quickly, very little hair-raising wobbling about). Friend's DD (who is now 5, good grief, how did that happen) did the froggy thing you're describing, she walked at 19 months. Oh, and mine was utterly immobile until she crawled, whereas friend's DD apparently teleported about the room while no one was looking. Spooky.

Milge, just what I was thinking but didn't want to post as everyone was saying it was fine.

My DD had hypotonia and the consultant said she would walk late (18-24m)

She walked at 13 months and a week.

Thanks for posting the 'bad' possbilities as well - it's helpful. I'm going to go and look up hypotonia, but even if he has it, it sounds as if it can't be that severe (he sat really well from about 5 months, rolled at 4 (though he's given that up now), bottom shuffles wildly in circles, and can get from sitting to tummy and back fine. It's just these softy little legs... I'll post what the paediatrician says tomorrow.

My DD has hypotonia. But it didn't just show itself as a delay in standing. She also still had head lag when pulled up for ages and was very late to crawl and sit, and just looks a bit floppy and bendy. So I think you would have noticed a general lack of muscle tone. She also only just learned to sit up from lying down in the last month (she is 16mos old).

(as in sit herself up, she could sit when placed there from 9/10 months)

There were no signs for us with our DD. She was seeing a consultant for plagio when he wrote in her book that she had hypotonia. He told us nothing about it or what to do about it.

I looked it up on the internet, saw it can be linked to plagio and got her some private physio treament. She sat up at 9 months iirc.

I suppose my DD has it quite severely. We are lucky that we get physio on the NHS, although it hasn't helped much yet...

She also had/still has a bit plagio...so there is probably a link there...

Doh! I just read that you said there is a link there, sorry

Has the plagio been sorted? How old is she again?

She is 16 months. It is amazingly improved, but still a tiny bit noticeable when her hair is wet, however not enough that I would be worried. We are very lucky it improved when she sat up as we could not afford a helmet. We did have some quite good advice and support on repositioning, and were referred for physio as she had torticollis too.

She had severe eczema too, she has not had the best start in life!