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Don't worry...she's perfectly within "normal" limits. Some kids are early walkers and some later. Maybe she is focusing on some other skill, like language at the moment. Or maybe she's just an efficient crawler and doesn't see the need to walk yet. I've heard that walkers can actually cause kids to walk later. Apparently they use different muscles than what is used for walking...my 1st used a walker and had no interest in walking until we took it away. She could get where she wanted (and into what she wanted).

I watch small children in my home and one of the boys was either 13 or 14 mths old and wouldn't walk. If you tried to stand him up, he would fold his legs. One day he was standing against the ottoman and just took off walking by himself until he fell. He stumbled a few times more, and he walks everywhere now. Every child is different. If he/she is not ready, there is no way to make them. Just take day by day and she will do it when she is ready.

One Happy Mom in Arizona.

My dyslexia kicked in ... lol ... when I first read your post I thought it said your daughter just turned 2 and wasn't walking and I was like WHAT of course you should be concerned and I can't believe you're just now addressing it ... LOL ... then I re-read it!! With that said ... I totally wouldn't be concerned, she just barely turned 1 ... and given that all children walk at different times I wouldn't worry at all, she'll be walking in no time and you'll be thinking back to this and wondering "what was I thinking" .. heehee!!!

Lazy, puhleeze. It sounds to me like, for now, she's content with scooting around the way she does. When she decides she feels like walking, she'll do it. Generations of Moms have been afraid that their otherwise perfectly normal toddlers are going to go to kindergarden in a diaper, but that doesn't happen. If she's got the stength to waddle around with support, she won't be pushing a walker to preschool.

A couple of spinster-auntie observations.

This one knows her own mind, and that may test your patience. She's not going to respond to pushing, though she'll probably thrive with encouragement and positive reinforcement.

I don't know if you're already doing this, but, if you don't have her in some sturdy comfortable shoes, I'd suggest putting them on -- at least during the times when she's most active. They might give her a little more confidence in her balance.

Most of all, neither you nor your daughter needs unsolicited advice or comments about her development. Just smile, and say, "She's a smart little kid. She'll get where she wants to go." Stop worrying. In 15 years, there will be times when you wish she weren't mobile.

Your baby is fine! A good friend of mine has a little boy who didn't walk until he was 14 1/2 months--she was concerned because he wasn't showing any real interest in even trying to walk. Then, one day--he literally took off and hasn't stopped since! Some kids walk and talk soon, others don't--but don't worry about your little one!

I have to agree, nothing to worry about at this point. Sounds like she is interested in moving and is...it'll come. I say enjoy the time now that you aren't chasing her around... And tell your advisors they are silly!

Lovemy4 is a discussion leader for North Central Phoenix, tired mother of 4 great kids and wife to one great husband.

Don't listen to those people with the "lazy" comments.....imho people are so flippin' competitive that they often turn things like this into some kind of opportunity to brag about their own child and try to put yours down by comparison......like "oh, well all of mine were tap dancing before they turned 1"..........kids develop at a different pace..............who would call a 1 year old lazy.......geez.
Listen to your own intuition....if you think she's fine, then she probably is....if your gut tells you something is wrong, then have it checked out by a pediatrician....otherwise let all that clucking by the hens go in one ear and out the other.

i wanted to thank everyone for their comments!! they really helped alot!!

Happy Wife. Happy Mother to Ashley 11/14/87 and Izabel 11/3/06