Should I be concerned about my 10 month old?

[Julymom2023]

My son is 10 months and one week old. He cannot crawl and cannot cruise although he has started to sit up by himself and is working on pulling to stand. He responds to his babe if I’m far away enough or go into another room, but doesn’t really respond if I’m sitting right next to him or if he’s outside in the stroller. He doesn’t point, doesn’t imitate, doesn’t wave. He doesn’tplay peekaboo back with me ( he smiles but doesn’t imitate). He smiles from time-to-time but it takes a lot to get him to smile. He babbles but it seems more to himself than communicative. I’m concerned- I’m a ftm so naturally I’m worried. Please share and advice or experiences- thank you!

Sounds similar to my son. He’s 14 months now, but he never crawled as he had no interest and just wanted to walk. So maybe encourage him with pulling to stand as that’s what he’s more interested in than crawling.
He also sometimes doesn’t respond to his name. I think if he’s distracted then he’s less likely to respond. I find he’s much less likely to respond if we are outside as he just gets so caught up in picking up rocks and sticks and touching everything.
My son also only really started pointing when he got to 12 months, but usually he points at things in books rather than objects he wants. And I’d say it’s only in the past 6 weeks that he’s started doing peek a boo with his muslin himself.
He’s also been quite hard to get to smile - whenever we go out people say hi to him and try to make him smile but he just stares at them or goes shy. Not all babies are super smiley and I personally wouldn’t be smiling at lots of strangers when out and about!
I do think that once he turned 1 things just changed and he’s become more smiley and independent and able to communicate without words or pointing. It’s just obvious what he needs somehow!
All this to say - I recently went to the HV about something else, but we chatted about everything with his development and she wasn’t concerned.
She pointed us to the BBC tiny happy people resources that can help with things like learning to talk so maybe look at that too.
But honestly, your son sounds perfectly normal :)