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olive crawled at 12 months and walked at 18 months. she was delayed in gross motor skills compared to other kids. but it didn't matter that much once she was walking and you didn't really notice any delays. now she's almost 3 and no one would think she is delayed (though she definitely runs slower than everyone else).

walking at 18 months is actually still within the range of normal, so i told myself i'd worry at 19 months if she wasn't walking. and it was like overnight once it happened so you never know!

Check out my late walker thread. My LO did stand independently, but refused to practice walking. He walked at 18 1/2 months.

Do they think there is an underlying cause for low tone? Do they work on walking?

My son was diagnosed with low muscle tone around 4 months. I was totally blindsided too, it seemed that everything was perfect! There's no syndrome either, just the low tone.

He started EI therapy for gross motor skills at 5 months and was crawling by 10 months and walking by 11. Physically, you'd never know he had delays now. He is still not taking well, which seems to be connected, but he has finally started working on that so I'm trying not to stress.

For DS the problem seemed to be as much a lack of motivation as the actual low tone. I guess the low tone was making him reluctant to get moving, and so he was slow to gain strength, and it was a vicious cycle. The biggest thing therapy did for him was that he started really trying

For standing, he did exercises bouncing on an exercise ball, and I think being stood up while leaning against someone. We'd also put stuff he really wants on the couch so he'd pull up on it. And trying to "dance" with him to music. He definitely tried harder if there was music.