14 month old not walking

[worriedmum211]

Would you be worried if your 14 month old was not walking or showing signs to want to walk?
Ds sat up at 5.5 months, crawled at 7.5 and was pulling to stand / cruising by 10m. He has mastered crawling and is like a little rocket about the place, he cruises along anything and everything he can, pulls to stand with ease, climbs the stairs so fast etc. He has no interest in walking though, he just seems okay to crawl but I know he’d be happier walking because he could get out the pram etc. last week we was practicing lots and he managed to stand alone and unaided for about 5 seconds on 3 separate occasions but he hasn’t done it since and just falls to his knees when we practice now. Is there anything I should be doing to help him? Everyone says he will do it when he’s ready but I honestly can’t see him ever walking he has absolute no interest in it!!!

just to add he was 35 weeks born, a late babbler (only started in the last 2 months but doesn’t shut
up now lol) he started clapping in the last month and claps along to songs and is pointing at random things sometimes. He doesn’t say any words with meaning but lots of bbababa dadada. He’s also started poking his tongue out when we do it.

i think it’s the lack of interest that worries me the most

thank you for any responses

I wouldn't worry, sounds absolutely fine. Both of mine were not walking at 14 months. My first only started crawling at 13 months and walked at 17 months. My second crawled early but didn't walk until 15 months. Sounds like your DS is not far off walking if he's cruising confidently and pulls to stand! He will just suddenly do it one day. Don't worry!

At 14 months, it’s nothing to worry about. DB didn’t walk until he was 2.5 years!!! I don’t think that is unheard of but is certainly unusual.

My friend’s DC was certainly under 2 but probably more than 18 months when they started walking.

Sounds very normal. I have 4 sons, one walked at 9 months, second 12 months, third 15 months, and fourth 18 months.
Children are all very different and will do it in their own time, so I really wouldn't be worrying about this.

I just can’t imagine him just doing it because he can’t stand unaided at all so I’m thinking how will he just walk one day 🤣

Not that long ago he couldn’t even sit up. Now he’s standing and cruising…

Totally normal. I have two boys ds1 walked at 14 months and ds2 not until 23 months. I think before 12 months is early, between 12-18 months normal/expected and after 18 months is late but doesn’t mean anything is wrong necessarily. I didn’t walk myself til I was 18 months

Sounds like my baby, OP. She was crawling really well at 7 months, pulling to stand before nine months, climbing the stairs up and down at ten months. Everyone kept saying 'ah, she'll be walking in no time', but she had ZERO interest. She could cruise/crawl everywhere she needed to go and is super stubborn - refused to hold my hands so I could walk her around. She'd just sit down straight away. If I held a stick, she'd hold onto the stick though (lol).

I think the only thing that really changed was time, but maybe taking her outside helped. Got her some shoes and she was super eager to explore, but I made it clear that outside was for standing/walking, not crawling. She got the message, started holding onto my hand and tottering about. We had about a month/sis weeks of leading her around by two hands and then one before one day she stood up and went off on her own. It did sort of 'just happen', albeit with a very long lead up.

My second has only started to walk at 19m, and my first walked at 11m! I think we all run around after her too much :) I really wouldn't worry at 14m xx

My son started walking at 17 months, I was starting to think it would never happen! He just wasn’t bothered about it, he would crawl everywhere and if we tried to get him to walk, he would just take two steps and fall down on purpose giggling. He was just a very happy and content baby so didn’t feel the need to move onto the next stage. Whereas my youngest daughter was walking at 12 months, she was just so determined. I think personality makes a big difference, my son was definitely physically able to walk for a while before he did it, he just wasn’t interested.

My twins didn’t walk until 16 months (also premature at 35weeks). Dtd1 walked, building up with coasting etc while dtd2 sat and wasn’t interested. Dtd1 walked properly and the next day dtd2 got up and walked having never even coasted round the furniture. I think she saw her twin do it and went oh, I want to do that. She looked like a drunk with zero control but 100% confidence 🤣 (she’s now 14 and developmentally on track).

I think the better they are at crawling the less likely they are to be in a hurry to walk. My DD was a lightning crawler. Walked at 15/16
months. DS never got very into crawling really but walked at 11 months. I know which I preferred!

I’m inclined to agree!

DS1 crawled at about 8 months but then moved straight onto cruising and climbing and walked at 10 months.

DD crawled a bit later, was quite good at it, wasn’t too bothered about cruising, walked at 13 months.

DS2 crawled at 7 months and stood at the same time and I thought he might walk even earlier than his brother. But he’s just become extremely good at speed crawling, is much more cautious and has no interest in climbing, and still shows no signs of wanting to let go of the furniture at nearly 12m!

My 2 walked at 16 months and 17 months!

Don't worry @worriedmum211 😘

My DD1 didn’t walk until 19 months. She was 8 weeks prem.