Do babies ever skip crawling AND cruising?

[Cafeaulait27]

Our baby doesn’t pull to stand, doesn’t cruise, doesn’t crawl, doesn’t bum shuffle, but does ‘ask’ us to stand him up all day long and walks confidently holding our hands. He really motors along quite quickly and this seems to be all he wants to go. Sometimes we leave him to ‘figure it out’ if we know he wants to stand up and is gesturing to us, but we don’t like to let him get too upset so we do reliant and stand him up. He seems to have very strong legs, it’s just his balance is not great.

i imagine most likely he’ll eventually crawl or cruise, but I just wondered if anyone has ever had a baby that went straight to walking?

@Aria2015 thank you, how did he get from sitting to standing if you don’t mind me asking? Glad to hear your boy caught up in the end ☺️ I’m sure in years to come I’ll wish I hadn’t worried so much

It's hard to explain but I'll try, so first they got us to practice rolling both ways, so laying on the floor and rolling front to back and back to front. Then when that was mastered (as I'm he could do it with ease), I'd start him on his back, get him to roll on his front and then we had to practice him getting up by using his arms first (almost like push up position) and then I'd help him bring one knee up and then encourage him to push up using his arms and from the knee. Does that make sense? The physio gave us instructions using pictures which made it easier to explain (I don't have them any more so can add a photo). He was about 15 / 16 months by this time so he could understand quite a lot which helped.

Everyone told me I was lucky he wasn't crawling all over, but it's a real worry when you see all the other children of a similar age doing it. I used to describe it as him almost not knowing what his body is capable of. He just didn't seem to naturally try and move his body in the same way as other children. Yet now he doesn't have a problem, so it's just an unexplained 'blip' like the doctor said.

Don't be fobbed off though. I recommend you take videos of him struggling to do stuff. I found that useful to show the doctor / physio etc... Good luck!

@Aria2015 thank you! Yes it’s hard when friends tell me I’m lucky and dismiss it. Babies are so much happier when they can move around independently. I think I understand what you mean actually, I will try it! Thank you

Dd bum shuffled she was really speedy and it meant she kept her hands free for carrying things. The first time she stood up she walked. Within a week she was running and climbing just as well as her cousin who had walked at nine months.