9 month old wants to walk but not crawl

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My 9 month old ds is climbing up and cruising around the furniture and anything else around. He just lets go and falls back,most of the time I'm there and manage to catch. I've baby proofed all I can think of, fire gard around the hearth, removed a table that could be pulled over, foam mats on floor, baby pen around the chinchilla cage. But he climbs EVERYTHING he has now bumped his head and got an egg from cruising along the chair and fell onto the chinchilla pen.

Any tips to keep him safe or entertained because he won't sit and play, he'll use me or any toy to get up and if there isn't anything to hold on to he'll fall straight backward rather that falling onto his bum.

I used to put a book or a toy on the sofa to entertain my DS as he was desperate to stand. Several cushions behind him to catch the inevitable fall.

Mine walked at ten months. It was rather difficult.

Don't stress out over him falling. That's how he will learn to stabilize himself. There will be many more knocks on the head to come. My daughter never crawled and she was walking at 8 months.

He's learning by making mistakes and falling, and unfortunately doesn't care how worrying it is for you!

My dd was the same, and walking by 10 months, albeit very unsteadily. It's just a phase but it's a toughie. I remember basically watching dd ALL the time unless I was really desperate, at which point I gave her the ipad, as it would the only thing that would distract her from her quest to walk.

God knows if it is actually true or helpful but my DGM would crawl around to show hers how to do it apparently. She was desperate to avoid bum shuffling and attributes her DCs intellect to the time she spent crawling around to teach them.

She was of the opinion babies copy so crawled to make sure hers did that stage.

She is also batshit. But lovely

I might crawl around tomorrow in the vain hope that he learns!

I really hope this phase is a very short one otherwise I might pull my hair out pfb me?

Dd2 was like this. She was walking confidently by the time she was 10 months and was a total bloody nightmare

I basically just had to watch her a lot and I do remember putting the sofa and chair cushions all around the floor so if she fell, she would hopefully land in one of those.

Mine has been cruising for about a month and today she has decided to crawl. Great, I thought. Oh no. She immediately crawled to the bottom of the stairs (where she couldn't previously cruise to) and tried to climb them. Then she crawled to the back door and tried to pull herself up on the blinds and walk out the door.

She only sees crawling as a means to attempt walking in ever more dangerous situations. I can't take my eyes off her. I never had this with DD1 who didn't walk until 18 months, when she had a bit more awareness of danger.

The only things I can suggest are travel cot/playpen, baby walker/jumper thing to strap him into, or I sometimes pop mine in the middle of the lawn with some toys, as far away from any climbable objects as possible!

Being batshit I have crawled around with babies, you could try putting him on his tummy under you and see if he decides to join in then you could make it a game by crawling together.It is tough when they start to walk so young.

Unfortunately he has decided that the bouncer is no longer fun and scream after about 10 minutes max long enough to pee and get a cuppa thankfully

Unfortunately our lawn is tiny, because we like plants so much we keep digging it up to make more room. I think I'm going to have to go out more but bad timing because it's school holidays and the groups all stop and the place is flooded with tourist.

Anybody got a recommendation for a play pen/travel cot that can easily put up and down as it'll fill my living room and that's the only room that a cat could be swung!