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17 months! She could stand and would take 1-2 steps, but didn't take off until she was ready. Once she was ready, she just literally started walking all around the house and strung 50+ steps together the first time.

14 months isn't late! I think they say by 18 months, and after that is late. DD started to walk at 14 months, and once she started, she was stable really fast. She was cruising since like 7 months, so funny that it took her so long.

16.5 months for mine. She crawled at 8 months and cruised at 11-12 months, but she took her time on walking.

17.5 months for DS! Literally 2 weeks before he was starting at a daycare centre that required the kids to be walking or at least close to it...I was worried! He would take a step or two between us, and that's it for weeks. Then I went to pick him up at his home daycare one day and he walked to me! From there is was non stop and he got stable quite quickly.

LO1 was 14 months and a week old when he started walking. It felt like because everyone but 1 other kid was walking/running around him at daycare but it wasn't late.

14.5 months. Try not to worry!

About 14.5 months. She also mostly skipped the stumbling phase and just did her first steps and then pretty much took off.

[ETA] That really isn't late, though There's a bell curve for all developments - 12 months is the mean age for walking, but anything from 8.5 to 20 months is still in the range of normal.

@MrsB2012: ditto experience for us at 17-18 months.

14 months isn't late at all!

@MrsBrewer: Yup, completely skipped the falling stage. You would have thought she had been walking for months the first time she took steps. She just doesn't do anything she doesn't want to do, until she decides she wants to. She's like that for everything. Once she decided she wanted to walk, she was off!

DD walked at 14 months. I think she pretty much just waited until she was confident she could do it perfectly, because she only stumbled maybe 2-3 times before walking like a pro I agree with others and wouldn't worry until 18 months or so.

I have the same worry about my 15 month old, who still isn't walking. His doctor isn't concerned, though, since he cruises and can stand without assistance for short periods.

18 months, 1 week for D. And he didn't crawl till the week of his 1st birthday. I spoke to several physicians about it. Our 1st pediatrician (at his 12m visit) told us to "stand him up in the middle of the room and let go." Ummm...no thank you. Changed peds. New ped said it is not a problem, he's late but still on the curve. 3rd ped (after we moved at 18m) said the same as the 2nd, but labeled him "developmentally delayed." 4th (at a sick visit at 20m when he was FINALLY walking) said he's fine and took the developmentally delayed diagnosis off his chart.

I did a ton of reading because I was really close to calling early intervention. 18m was late but still on the curve of that particular milestone, like the 2nd ped said.

I know it's hard. I really struggled with the fact that literally everyone I knew with babies his same age (and younger!) had walkers, and he was just totally uninterested. Once he started, though, he was a pro - he never really did that early-walker-frankenstein walk, and he was running immediately! I just told myself he was practicing when no one was watching so that he could do it "right" when it counted, ha!