I want to hear from mums with late starters!

[butterfly_warrior]

My boy was pretty much the same. No teeth until 9 months old. Didn't crawl until 10.5 months old, nearly 11 months... Walked two weeks after his birthday. He didn't roll around much at all until he was around 8-9 months as well. And yet, he pulled himself to standing and cruised the furniture a few weeks before he crawled. He took a long time to get started, but once he got started it all went very quickly.

Your baby is still very much within the bounds of normal. And I have to say - enjoy having a baby that stays were you put him because life gets really crazy after that! But ultimately, they all do things within their own time frame and you certainly don't have cause to worry just yet.

BW

[Early Kids]

Not alone and I agree with PP's, they'll do it in their own time.

Brendan wasn't rolling at 7 months, let alone anything else.

[Gigi]

Are you worried about this yourself? or is it just when you get with a group of parents (e.g mother's group) and hear what other bubs are doing?

it's hard to listen to the progress of other bubs, and NOT compare your own child with those bubs.

the "in their own time" thang, is hard to listen to, when it SEEMS every other child you know of, is already rolling etc.

my child didn't talk until THREE and i drove myself inside out, worrying about that. Now she's a chatterbox (nearly four now). The whole time i was stressing, people told me "she'll talk in her own time". i was fine with her, just her and me. It was in situations with other kids her age (and mums) that i would doubt myself. We went thru a few years of speech therapy. But in the end, she spoke when she was ready.

A wise nurse once told me, if your child's skin tone is good, if their eyes look bright, if they respond to you and are interested (curious) in the world around them, that's all that really matters.

I remember having to use teething gel around the age of your bub. no teeth to speak of, but underneath her gums, the teeth were moving up and down - making room for the tooth to come thru later on.

Is this your first bub? i've only had one and so many people tell me, you stress with your first, over every little thing, and then relax more with your 2nd, 3rd babies - cos by then you've worked out, worrying don't change nuttin'. and they do get thru their stages, whether we stress or not. (hard to believe that one, when you're in the middle of it, i know).

theres so much variation too. some kids do very little movement, then walk WITHOUT crawling. stuff like that. jumping stages.

good luck with the wait. time is so weird with a bub. some things drag, others whizz by so fast.

[LimeSlice]

Charlotte didn't cut teeth until she was 9.5 months.. so don't stress on that - I still miss the gumminess! lol

She also only rolled back to front once that I ever saw.
She would sit but never sit herself up from lying down itms. As in, she would sit if I sat her but never did it herself. Ever that I saw.
Having said that, she walked at 10.5 months... So I think each baby is different, and each milestone itself is different. There are some that never crawl, some that never sit, some walk late but can converse in sentences by 18months.. lol

[allycat06]

My wee one is 16.5 months and has no interest in walking. He knee walks, faster then a lot of kids his age can walk. Tis a rather funny sight.
No teeth until 10.5 months...then 6 in the space of a few weeks!