How long between first steps and confident walking?

[TheSmallestOneWasMadeline]

My DD took a couple of little steps this morning, I could have cried!! I don't think she even realized she was doing it on her own though and as soon as she did she sat back down and wouldn't try again 😂

Just wondering if we should expect proper walking very soon or if a couple of small steps every now and then is normal for a while now?

My boy got it pretty quickly - was tottering around a few days after he took his first steps. Took a lot longer for proper confident walking though.

Congratulations! 😁

How old is your DD? I think it depends on age tbh - early walkers (under 12 months) can be a bit wobbly for longer, and later walkers are fairly confident from the off. But that’s just my experience.

I think it depends on the child - I've heard of a few who took first steps but then didn't really walk for ages because they still preferred crawling. Whereas DD took her first steps the week of her first birthday and hasn't really crawled since!

Also I think once they can get from floor to standing by themselves they walk a lot more because they can get themselves up if the fall, vs if you put her down standing up and she took a few steps, if that makes sense?

My DD took her first steps at 15 months but wasn’t confidently walking until 16 months.

Agree, depends on age of child and what they’ve been doing before then. My DS didn’t walk independently until 15 months, but when he did he just set off with a confident, arm swinging stroll like he had been doing it for ages. He’d been cruising for well over half a year before then. The DC of friends who took their first wobbly steps at more like 10 months weren’t confidently walking until maybe a month or so later. A lot wobbled at 10 or 11 months but weren’t properly walking until around their first birthday.

First steps at 15 months and could walk around confidently straight away.

A couple of months?
All children are different to each other

Totally depends on the child, but I agree late walkers are usually faster to pick it up -DS cruised from about 9 months but didn’t walk without furniture until about 14 months - then basically just set off walking like he’d been doing it for years. I have a video from later that same week of him walking about 20m across a beach perfectly happily.

Whereas one of my friend’s babies walked at 10m but stopped and started a lot - maybe one or two steps, then nothing for the rest of the day. Took him a good two months to walk as confidently as DS had within a week.

And obviously by 18 months there was absolutely no way of knowing which child was the early walker.

First DC, the same day! He was running the next day. He was almost 16 months old. He just waited until he could do it properly! He wouldn't even walk holding hands or cruise along furniture before that unless it was to get to the best climbing position.

DC2 took first steps at 13 months but it was 11 weeks later before she started walking.

This what I found with mine - DD1 was a very late walker (18 months) and she pretty much was solid on her feet straight away - didn't do the toddler drunken zombie stage at all... DD2 was quite early getting mobile (earlier scaling vertical surfaces - I swear she was spider-child) but was wobbly for a good long while. Well, to be fair, with her dyspraxia she's still pretty wobbly at times these days!