Very worried - 18 month old still not pulling up

[zen1]

I've posted here before about my DS when he was very late to sit up unaided. Well, he eventually mastered sitting up at 2 weeks before a year old. He fell backwards a lot at first, but now sits very well and doesn't fall over. At 15 months (again very late), he started bum-shuffling and now gets everywhere by this method. However, I took him to see the hv today and she asked me if he weight-bares, and to be honest, he doesn't really. She looked him over and said he has good muscle tone and can see no obvious sign of anything being wrong, but has said that if he'd not pulling up by 21 months she will refer to the paediatrician.

He is bright and interactive, has good fine motor skills and communicates well, so I am not worried about him in any other respect. He is also a very tall baby. I should point out that my other DCs were late walkers (one at 21 months), but I just keep thinking what if there's something awful wrong with DS?

I just wondered if anyone else out there had a baby who was very late achieving the gross motor milestones but didn't ever have a reason behind it?

Thanks

Zen - DD was referred by gp as she wasn't crawling at 15 months. We saw paed at 17 months and he took a huge history and requested the blood test and at the same appt booked us in to see physio. We saw physio at 19 months.

Her arms are fine but her knees, hips and ankles are very bendy. Tbh I hadn't really noticed how bendy they were until the physio bent her knee the wrong way!

Thanks tothy. It sounds wierd, but DS can rotate his head to almost look right behind him. He is very bendy indeed. I think I will give it a few more months before doing anything, particularly as I don't want the blood test.

tethersend can you link me to your original posts? I found one of yours about the hand flapping - DS does that loads as well when he's excited!

my dd is20months&still not walking.
she crawls everywhere tho&has now started climbing.no cruising yet tho.
gp referred her2paed physio10wks ago2moro&weve still not heard anything!!

she still sleeps for2or3hrs a day also!dont know if this is a factor4anything?does anyone else know?

Oh, my DD sleeps this long too- somebody told me that bum-shufflers use up a lot more energy, so need to sleep more; no idea if that's true, but I'm not complaining about the naps

Thread here zen1

Thanks tethersend

babyjane, my DS also sleeps 2-3 hrs! But all my boys have liked their afternoon naps. DS1 and 2 still had 2hrs at 3.5 yrs!

oh thats so good2know shes not the only1!lol
oh im not complaining either!lol

just read yr thread tethersend but didnt say anything about hand flapping.am interested as my dd does this&her feet go2when shes exited lol