Neurotic? Not sure when my daughter should be sitting up/rolling over

[Midge25]

Hi all. New to Mumsnet but hoping for some advice from the resident experts! Got back from baby clinic today with the fear, as my daughter is not yet able to sit alone/fully roll over (she can roll mostly onto her right side but that's it). When was at baby clinic lots of other wrigglers of a similar age seemed to be doing it and now am really worried! My daughter is 5 and 1/2 months and quite chubby. She really objects to 'tummy time' and I'm wondering if this is slowing her down?

My friend's son NEVER rolled. He just went from sitting to eventually cruising and finally walking at about 18 months. He's 3 now and totally developmentally fine - he just didn't seem to be into moving as a baby for whatever reason.
Also, I think at 5.5 months is young to have totally mastered rolling. My ds is 6 months and has only in the last 2 weeks really got the hang of rolling all different ways.

none of my children rolled before 8.5 months, none of them crusied either. infact ds didnt even crawl properley. dd1 started walking about 8 weeks after rolling over for the first time.

DS is 7 mths and can't roll, he can maybe sit for a couple of secs at most before toppling (he is quite chubby and seems to just fall forward until his tummy stops him going any further!).

DD was late with everything (crawled at 12 mths, walked at 17) but for all my stressing at the time, you'd never know it now when you see her running around with her friends. I think DS is going to be just the same.

With your 2nd LO, you learn to be much more laid back about it. As other MNers have said, enjoy the peace - once your DD's on the move, you'll never be able to relax in quite the same way again.