Hun you really need to see someone, as delays in gross motor skills can have lasting effects if not helped. Please see GP for referal to a hospital physio. Depending if there are any other concerns (not sure where in melb you are but most areas will have similar things) sunshine hospital has a developmental clinic that does assessments on kids and can offer physio, speech pathology etc.
Early intervention for these issues makes a huge difference.
The sad thing is that there is LONG wait lists for all of these services.
At 18 months my DS1 was not walking or talking so we got a referal and took 2 months to get appt for assessment at developmental clinic (MCHN refered me) and then in mean time he started walking but was still delayed in speech. We waited 12 months for appt with speech pathology.
Hi feeb,
i am so glad i msged here! Everyone has been super helpful! What a long wait.. I'd better get onto it, i don't want him to be too behind... if there is some exercises i can do with him.. As i have mentioned, below he does have 2 big sisters, are we all taking too good a care of him?? Do i need to leave him a bit?
Tillie, I don't think you need to leave him to cry or anything, I seriously doubt he's not moving because he wants you to pick him up. Rolling, crawling and moving should all be innate to him. He should just do it (considering he's able to). Which is why it is a concern that he's not. Though like Tegam, I think all children meet milestones when and if they are ready. At this age babies don't take 'advantage' they don't undersand things like that yet. They want their needs met, and that is all. Not meeting milestones is something that is worrying because it could imply other issues.
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