When did your baby walk?

I walked at 15 months , and im pretty fantastic I must say

I took till 18 months to learn to walk  - my poor mum must have been so worried!

Hey where do you guys get those cool footers with names and pics of your babies?

I think your more likely to hear early stories than late ones. Anyway the average age for walking is 13 months so for every kid that walks before 13 theres one that walks after.

I am such a slack mother I can hardly remember when my kids did stuff. I think Jack was 11 months when he walked and that was very encouraged. Caprece was about 15 or 16 months I think but she wasn't really encouraged like Jack was. Shes a lot more vocal than Jack was although at the moment pretty much every word she says is no.

Really by the age of 5 kids are pretty even in that they can walk, talk, jump etc. Early babies aren't proven to be any smarter or better at sports than later babies so don't worry too much.

RachandJack wrote: I think your more likely to hear early stories than late ones.

I was about to say exactly the same thing!!

... and yep developmental norms say 12-13months for walking with a range of 6 months either side...

I had one early walker (DD2) at tens months and one "average" on 1st birthday Cognitively they are much more prepared for walking at 12 months + so less stressful

Chiara sounds like Caden, he pushes his toys around the floor as well, and stands up on his own and "dances" lol, like bouncing up and down. We did very little to encourage him as well, just let him do things at his pace, now when he stands up we will hold our arms out to him and he will take a few steps towards us, he is starting to stand up and take steps with out us holding our arms out too.

Caden has always been a very strong wee boy, right from day 1 he could hold his head up himself quite well, the midwives and doctors were quite surprised lol.

DD walked alone at 15mths. She talks a lot and my plunket nurse did say they often focus on either movement or language.

She commando crawled from 8 mths, and didn't crawl on all 4s until after her first birthday. She pulled herself up and cruised furniture for a long time before walking.

ETA - ha ha she has just brought me her coat, hat and shoes - what is she trying to say?

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