DD is 14 mo this and still isnt walking. She doesn't really like to stand in her own either yet, but she will walk with a walking toy!
When did your late walker start walking?
DD is 14 mo this and still isnt walking. She doesn't really like to stand in her own either yet, but she will walk with a walking toy!
When did your late walker start walking?
nectarine / 2466 posts
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.
coconut / 8854 posts
@MrsB2012: oh wow! So you kind of skipped that falling over ever 5 seconds period?? I wouldnt mind that!!
pomegranate / 3904 posts
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.
pomegranate / 3401 posts
DD1 didn't walk until 15 months. DD2 just turned one and still isn't walking! I think slow walkers much run in the family! She crawls like a maniac and can cruise very well but won't walk with walkers or while holding my hands. I think she likes to feel secure by only cruising while holding on to stable items (couch, ottoman, etc),
grapefruit / 4903 posts
16.5 months for mine. She crawled at 8 months and cruised at 11-12 months, but she took her time on walking.
coconut / 8430 posts
14 months for us and she was quickly more stable than our friends LOs who were walking before a year.
persimmon / 1023 posts
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.
grapefruit / 4717 posts
DS started walking around 15 months. Didn't fall very often then. He's just a cautious kid. I wouldn't worry at all yet, since even 15-16 mo. is in the normal range.
pear / 1622 posts
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.
pomelo / 5628 posts
18.5! He's still less coordinate with gross motor than his peers, but totally normal. He crawled for like 13 months so he was an expert...
cantaloupe / 6791 posts
7 days from turning 15 months when he finally walked. He was very steady and not wobbly at all, so I guess he just waited until he was truly ready to let go (he started cruising at 10 months).
pomegranate / 3658 posts
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.
cantaloupe / 6869 posts
15 months. He'd been cruising for 6 months but he's one of the more cautious kids that doesn't try something unless he is sure he can do it.
eggplant / 11824 posts
@MrsB2012: ditto experience for us at 17-18 months.
14 months isn't late at all!
nectarine / 2466 posts
@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!
GOLD / watermelon / 14076 posts
15 months and also totally skipped the wobbly/falling over phase.
pear / 1648 posts
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.
pomegranate / 3764 posts
Georgia was 17 months. And once she finally started, there was no turning back.
We had been advised to wait until 18 months before following up for some intervention, so she took her sweet time & did everything when she was ready!
pomegranate / 3314 posts
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.
honeydew / 7504 posts
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!
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