Learning to walk

[Meredithgrey1]

I'm sure it varies and I'm not worried about DD, I'm just wondering. How long was it between your kids taking their first steps and them using walking as their main way of getting around?

For us it was a couple days but I think he took his time trying to walk in first place. He was freestanding for a long time before he started trying to walk.

For some, months. My DD is 19 months and took her first independent stop about 7 weeks ago. She loves taking steps for claps, but still automatically crawls to get places. For her cousin who is 4 months older it only took him about 2 weeks.

Once Dts started that was it but they were really really late to take the first steps lazy so I think they just waited until they could do it properly.

Both of mine took first steps on their first birthdays. Then didn't take steps again or properly walk until 16 and 17 months respectively.

A while as mine was a speedy crawler so preferred that. What got her walking was giving her something like a little toy to hold as you can't crawl and hold something.

Mine couldn’t crawl, so walked very soon after first steps. She had friends that were good crawlers that would always choose to crawl because that was faster - don’t think they walked as main mode of transport for about 6 months after first steps.

DD started walking holding two hands at 11 months. At 12 months she could walk holding one hand. At 13 months she was brave enough to let go and she was off! She is my less physical child and didn't crawl or bum shuffle at all. That first month of two handed walking was back breaking.

DS is a lot more physical and actually crawled. Can't remember exactly when he started walking but he wanted to be independent much sooner, although it took him longer to get started in the first place. I'd say he was around 1, then a couple of days later he went off by himself. He was standing against the sofa at 6mo, and went from cruising to toddling to running very, very quickly!

DD took her first steps at 8 months old and was walking everywhere within a fortnight. BUT she didn't crawl until after 12 months and took ages to learn how to get upstairs.

Neither of mine could manage a walker until they had established their walking. They are difficult to control speed and change direction. DD1 could walk properly within 4 weeks of her first steps and DD2 it took her 10 weeks to get to independent walking but her first steps were on the day she turned 9 months.

DS1 walked quite late, at 19 months. Prior to that he'd been crawling a lot at home but doing a lot of walking holding hands when out and about. Once he'd started walking he never really went back to crawling. I have two videos of him doing 3-4 wobbly steps on the first day he decided to walk, and then the next day of him walking laps of our landing - falling over a couple of times but keeping going.

Dd took her first steps then refused point blank to do anymore for two weeks. After two weeks she walked off down the path in the park as if she'd been walking for six months. She was on her feet permanently after that. She was 18 months exactly.

DS took his first steps at 12 months but it took him until about 14 months to walk more often than he crawled, and he probably didn't stop crawling altogether until another couple more months after that.

DS is 11 months and walks confidently now but stood unaided from about 10 months. From when he took his first step to now walking everywhere was a couple of weeks though.

Took months for my DD to be able to walk for a while without falling or going down on her knees. Was a late walker even now at 27 months she can't walk that far

A couple of weeks, in some of that time he stopped walking altogether and just reverted to crawling.

About 2 weeks for DS. Took his first steps a week before his first birthday and walking full time about a week later.

@SnuggyBuggy mine put/s soft toys/items in his mouth like other animals do to transport their young. Or if he's got a TT bib on with a crumb catcher, he put them in there whilst he crawled to where he wanted to go then got them out again 😂

He's been on his feet cruising since about 7 months and we all thought he'd walk by Christmas (9 months) ... He then randomly started crawling around his first birthday, so did that for a bit (he's very very fast) and took what we classed as his first steps a month ago, but it's only been the last week or so has started doing a lot more walking, aged 16 months.

DS was walking at 9 months and running at 10. There was no stopping him. He never used a pushchair so would walk and then I'd carry him in a sling on my back when he was tired.

DD didn't walk until 11 months and was very unsure until she was around 13 months.