Walking anxiety

[yellowsubmarine12]

Anyone have any experience of toddlers that have walked late or needed physiotherapist to help.

My DD is 20 months. Big! 98 percentile height and weight.

Bottom scooting has been the preferred method of transport so far! But can and has crawled. Sat fine at 6/7 months.

Has been pulling to stand since 18.5 months. Does stand on tip toes though. Was advised to put ankle boots on her. Seems to be working. Not standing on tip toe in boots...

Have noticed she has preference for left leg when getting up to stand. Right doesn't seem to be used that much. Also right feels tighter. Has rotation at ankle ok but not as flexible as left.

Is she building muscle?do I give it time?

Social / language is all strong and good.

Just looking for others experience of late walkers

I have one here! Didn’t start to have any interest in walking until c18 months. She moves around on her knees very quickly and still reverts to this now, despite being 3 weeks away from being 2. She is high on percentile for height too so I wondered if this was the issue too as obviously more height equals bigger fall. It has been a confidence thing for our daughter I’m sure. Lockdown has really helped as we’ve been going for daily walks as a family and she has steadily gone from being supported with both hands to needing a normal hand hold. We’re hoping that by her 2nd birthday she will feel confident enough to walk on her own, not that we don’t love holding her gorgeous squishy hand. She is very chatty and bright so I think these skills have been honed first rather than walking. My other child walked at 10 months but didn’t say proper words until at least two so I think they focus on one major skill at a time or so I’ve heard from other sources. I was getting concerned that she may have an issue but I think she just needed time which seems now to be paying off. I recall she was one leg dominant for a while when climbing the stairs but that seems to have gone now or maybe I just haven’t noticed. I set a benchmark of when to get her referred for further investigation (might be an option for you to ease any worry!) but as she’s almost there we are just going with the flow. One thing I would recommend is ensuring that her shoes are really comfortable and are supportive. We have just changed our daughters shoes to wider ones and she is a lot happier in them and her walking goes from strength to strength. Hope you get some progress soon.