I didn't realise myself that she had low muscle tine and friends and family were shocked as she had held her head and neck up early while on her belly and could stay like that for ages, she also loved to weight bear on her legs. It was picked up when the health nurse layed her on her back then put one finger in each of my dd's hand to grasp onto, at 6 months, her neck should have stayed up as she pulled her slowly (instead of hanging back) and her bum slid out from underneath and she wasn't helping at all to pull herself up. Combined with this she didn't roll very often and was a bit later with sitting etc so thats when we got sent to a paed physio. She gave us exercises to do at home. To be honest I am not sure how much it helped as I suspect she prob would have done things in her own time anyway, but then there was no harm done and made me feel like I was doing something! When we were discharged from the hosp physio program at 18 months the physio said you would never know now as she had completely caught up and was even ahead in some gross motor areas!
sounds exactly like my DD! At around 9 months she was sitting (if you put her there, could do that since 5-6 months) and by 10 months started reaching riiiight out to reach things, then would get herself back up to sitting.
At around 11 months she started to drag herself (still not up on her knees, legs splayed like a chicken), but by 11.5 months she was crawling more or less normally.
And in the past couple of weeks she's just started putting weight on her legs. never even liked putting her feet on the floor before, now she pushes down when I hold her up like my son did at 6 weeks
She has always had good upper body strength, just didn't want to use her legs like that. She kicks (hard!) and has full movement, I honestly think she just didn't want to .
I was starting to worry a bit, but she's getting there now. it is nice having a late mover.
I think the right time to get something checked is when you are worried about it - I'm a firm believer in Mothers Intuition
At 5 months I took DS to the Paed as I was worried that he would not lift his head when on his belly, something just seemed wrong to me.
He was diagnosed with low tone and hip dysplasia after ultrasounds and xrays which thankfully is all corrected now (he'll always be a bit on the floppy side with tone, but perhaps he might be a trapeze artist or a flexible dancer hehehehe)
Most likely there is nothing wrong, but wont you just kick yourself if you find out months later you were right? A quick and painless Xray/Ultrasound would be all that's needed to check if there are any concerns with the legs etc
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