Can they catch up?

[ThirdTimeLucky27]

My 11 month old is showing delays in some areas of development currently. Is there anyone who has been through similar? Can they 'catch up'?

Any help very much appreciated x

My 7 yr old didn’t walk until 18 months and now does year 6 maths in year 3 😃

That's amazing! Well done you x

It wasn’t a boast sorry just re read. More of I stressed and then he came out of nowhere! he never even crawled

No not atall.. Proud mumma!

My little one is 11 months and not sitting, or only for a few seconds. I am in touch with health visitors and the GP but am getting stuck in a habit of googling and scaring myself..

Positivity needed 🤞🏼

My daughter had delays at 4 months and at 20 months. She caught up both times. The 4 months delay was down to under treated reflux and undiagnosed reflux and once they were better controlled she caught up within a month. They think she was just to miserable to interact with the world and that was why she didn't smile, respond to sounds or turn to voices
We aren't sure what was behind the delay at 20 months. She was unable to retain words so only had a working vocabulary of 3 words and lost old words when she learnt new words. She was at what we now know was a very poor nursery at 20 months. This closed when she was 21 months, she had 3 months without regular child care then we moved house and she started a new nursery and within 2 months she blossomed and was back on track. We were doing exercises with that we were given by the HV to support her retaining language and her building her vocabulary.

She does in general have the habit of not doing something until she has cracked it. She was cruising furniture at 9 months but was 14/15 months before she took independent steps. She did it one Sunday and from the next day she walked and ran and hasn't stopped since.

She's August born in and 2 weeks thought we would have to defer her school entry but she started school in September at 4 and a few weeks and has settled in well and coping brilliantly!

That's amazing! Happy your little one is doing so well ♥️ It's nice to hear positive stories as a lot of what I'm finding is very depressing. My gut feeling is still that she will get there in her own time and everything will be fine, but maybe I'm naive x

My daughter reached all milestones later. She started walking with 18 months and said her first word when she was 3.5 years old. Her fine and gross motor skills are also delayed and it takes her longer to learn new skills.

We’re raising her bilingual. She is now 4 years old, has a wide vocabulary in both languages and has started forming sentences with four words. Her communication is still delayed and it is not possible to have a conversation with her.

However, she is ahead of other children her age in other ways. She loves numbers and can count to 200 in both languages and does simple calculations. She has a very good memory and a great sense of humour.

She was formerly diagnosed with autism when she was 2.5 years old and until she said her first word, we had been wondering whether we would ever hear her talking.

It depends.
Ask for assessment and genetic tests to give you more info.
There may not be a quick answer so you focus on therapies that are needed and see what happens

I think it may depend on the reason for not sitting.

Dd2 didn't sit at 11 months, simply because from 5 months she crawled, so if you put her to sit, she'd throw herself on her front and crawl off. I would guess that isn't the case for your dc or you would have said, but silly though it sounds now I did worry about it.

How is her muscle tone, or could she be hypermobile? Both of those can be one of those things which they'll catch up, or indicative of something else.
Are you encouraging her to sit eg sitting behind her and when she wobbles over, then steadying her? More practice she has, the better.
Does she have ear infections? Ds had more problems at sitting than dd1 because he had ear infections and it made him giddy (they suspected).
Do you sit her in a wooden high chair - we had one, and I can remember someone commenting how hard it was for them to sit in it without sliding down. We got a cushion for it, and that made a huge difference.

We can't say she'll catch up, but children certainly do from this stage.