Worried about 6 month development

[Lozzylou1]

Hi. Advice appreciated. I can’t help & do what everyone else does & compare my daughter to other children.

She can sit on her own but just does not appear to be active. My friends little one is 3 months & he wriggles like crazy. Arms & legs constantly on the move.

My daughter reaches for toys, can grab & pass back and forth but is hating tummy time at the moment. Made no attempt to roll although she’s done the occasional one. She just appears to be lazy & doesn’t move much as what I thought she would.

How will she become stronger if she does not like being on her front?

My little one is similar - he’s nearly 8 months and doesn’t roll (except from tummy to back in one direction), he hates tummy time (hence why he has no motivation to roll onto his tummy and rolls straight onto his back), and hasn’t been super interested in moving except when standing. He started sitting really well at 5 months. It doesn’t matter what we try, he just has no interest in being on his tummy or trying to crawl. Just the last couple of weeks he has started putting both hands on the floor to his side and sort of pushing his body round with his legs so he moves slightly to grab a toy. One day he couldn’t do this and then suddenly one day he just did it.
But he LOVES walking. That’s all he ever wants to do - obviously holding our hands or his Walker or furniture. We’ve just let him do that. You can’t really make them do something they don’t want to. Literally an hour ago he was holding onto the sofa and then let go and did 2 independent steps towards me.
it’s so hard not to compare - I’ve spent a lot of time seeing my friends babies doing things and trying to encourage mine to do it, but he just won’t.
Your baby may be the same - possibly will skip crawling and go straight to walking or possibly will one day just do something that she couldn’t before. Help her practice stuff she’s interested in and giving opportunities I.E put toys out to the side so she has to try to move to get them, and move her body for her a bit to show her the positions she needs to be in.
Try not to worry too much - they all follow their own development path

That is honestly such a reassuring and helpful reply. Thank you. I know you’re right they all do things in there own time but it’s so hard to not compare.

So he’s walking now that’s amazing!! Did he just eventually learn to pull himself up on to furniture