Reassurance - sorry it’s turned into a long one 🤣

Whenever I come on this app, I always see people’s babies (born June or July 2024) hitting milestones, rolling around, some even crawling. I can’t help but feel a bit worried sometimes as my LG who is 8 months in 5 days, doesn’t roll or crawl etc. She went through a short period of rolling from back to front but no longer has any interest in doing this. She can sit unaided and has done for quite a while. I count my blessings in that she is an absolutely fantastic eater (we do BLW). I know every baby is different & they will do things when they’re ready, but seeing all these babies hitting milestones I can’t help but sometimes worry. I’m not sure if it’s anything to do with her weight? She is quite tiny (was on 2nd percentile until last month). She is now 9th. She was 14lb at 6 and a half months. (Haven’t weighed since). At the odd play groups we attend, people think she is about 4 months 🤣 (same size as all the 4 months there). Family were saying maybe she didn’t have the strength but I’m not sure? I feel like she does. She is quite strong 🤣 Is anybody else’s baby (basically 8 months) the same? Or should I be worried? I get married in September & I’m really hoping she’ll be toddling down the aisle (she will be 14 months) 🤞🏼

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My boy is 6 months and tiny on the 9th centile and I do notice babies the same ages hitting milestones before him but they’re all much much bigger than him so I think potentially it could that xx

My boy is the same size as my friends 3 months. When my friends baby was born he was the same size as my soon at about 3 months xx

Oh and just to add - although my daughter walked later than most of her peers, she isn’t physically behind in the slightest, she can walk, run, climb, etc perfectly fine. Parents are so rushed these days to have their child hit all these milestones as fast as possible, when in reality it’s not a medical concern at all

@Lauryne ah that pic is very helpful, thank you!

Hey girl, my boy is 2 now. He didn’t crawl or walk until the month before his first birthday, and decided to do both the same week. He mostly relied on bum shuffling to get around instead but that took a while too. Didn’t like being on his stomach so didn’t roll either really. He’s now super active and does flips off the sofa and is impossible to catch. Honestly she’s still young and they’re all different. I know the feeling of worry, it tore me up for months.. but honestly there’s time. Try to push the worry away and just keep trying with her. Practise makes perfect and she’ll pick it up eventually, when she’s ready. I always take the milestones with a pinch of salt for this reason. You’ll find she’ll be way ahead with something she shouldn’t be doing yet but not doing something it says she should be.💖

https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/child-growth/child-growth-standards/indicators/motor-development-milestones/mm_percentiles_table.pdf?sfvrsn=81f3b60b_5 This is also useful to look at! For example if your girl started crawling within the next month, she would be 50th centile. My daughter was 99th centile in pretty much all the physical milestones and even with her only starting to crawl at 13 months old she still wasn’t late according to the WHO, and no dr or HV was concerned

My daughter didn’t crawl till 10 months old and she didn’t walk till she was 16 months old honestly try not to worry about it. So much pressure is put on mums nowadays about your baby should be doing this and that. Honestly take no notice, your lovely baby will be just fine and will get there in her own time 🩷🩷🩷

Try not to compare! (I know easier said than done lol) my LG is 7.5 months and she is barely starting to plank. She actually was really good at rolling and then decided that she didn’t want to anymore lol she’ll roll onto her stomach but refuses to roll back and at this point I’m just like “whatever”. Try not to stress, everything will be alright 🩷

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