I know anecdotal evidence is not any kind of hard evidence, but fwiw its something we've done with our LO- actually, he insisted on it and loved it and would bounce away like a crazy thing. So far he seems to be fine.
You might be interested in looking at some of the research on jolly jumpers, because there are similar concerns about those (it being much the same action). There was a fairly detailed thread a little while back somewhere on here about them, and it seemed the general idea was that while you didn't want to have them in a JJ (or holding them standing on their legs) for an extended period of time, it was fine for a while. The other thing to watch was that they take their weight as much as possible on their whole foot rather than their toes. The thread was quite good if you want to find it, or just google about jolly jumpers.
I have heard that if you over use...like over fifteen mins at a time....jolly jumper and walker then that 'can' cause back problems later in life...but DD has always been a very upright baby, always standing on our lap while we held her up, im no expert obviously but i would say that at five months old it would be good for him to be doing it for a short time.
Ava-Jayde has been able to put pressure on her own legs since she was 2 weeks old, and Im not even exaggerating she's a freak of nature lol ... she use to do that all time when she was a baby, she's had unbelievably strong legs. I think though it's like anything, darl. Don't try and make them walk or you'll apparently bow their legs etc etc.. im sure if it's not for long periods of time your little one will be fine. And i'm not really sure it makes them walk quicker anyway dp did it with ava heaps and she walked at 10.5 months...
thanks guys! Actually it was as simple as looking up the development stages in Baby Love and also the Huggies website, for his age which says that the baby should be able to bear his own weight (with help) by six months.
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