Timing of physical milestones - standing, crusing, and walking

[SarahBear]

Leo is speeding through all the physical milestones and is constantly standing up and testing the limits of his balance. He will often stand with just one hand resting on an object for balance and there was one time he simply leaned against my legs which where propped up as I sat on the floor while he used his hands to look at a toy. He also tried squatting down to reach for a book while holding on to a bookshelf (he fell the last inch and stayed sitting). He hasn't yet tried to cruise though. It seems like he's trying to stand independently first, but maybe this is just normal progression (even if fast). Do some babies stand without support before they cruise? Is it more likely that he's just learning balance and will soon be cruising? He's so ahead of Violet with his milestones. Am I going to have a walking 9 month old on my hands? Does anyone else have a baby of a similar age (7.5 months) doing similar things or someone who had a baby doing similar things when their baby was this age? When Violet was this age, she had JUST learned to crawl and to sit unsupported.

Edit: and when I say he has one hand on an object to stand, I mean the object is an arms length away and his hand is just casually resting on it. He barely needs any help to balance.

 

[k4th]

*stalking*

Ds has been rolling since 11 weeks & now he's trying to sit. I want to see what we might be in for!

 

[AngelofTroy]

I don't remember when Micah first stood up, but I have videos of him standing taking steps behind a pushalong walker trolley at 6 months. He was cruising before that. He stood alone at 9 months and walked at 10 months exactly.

 

[SarahBear]

Leo didn't actually master sitting until about 6 months. He was crawling around 5 to 5.5 months though. He wasn't coordinated with it though. He mastered crawling at 6 months and is super fast with it.

 

[SarahBear]

I don't remember when Micah first stood up, but I have videos of him standing taking steps behind a pushalong walker trolley at 6 months. He was cruising before that. He stood alone at 9 months and walked at 10 months exactly.

Leo will walk forward if you hold his hands but when he's holding on to an object and it slides forward, he doesn't move his feet. I didn't even know he would walk while holding on to hands until my mom visited and did it with him. I never bothered to try, so I have no idea when he would have done it. We have no push-along toys, so I have no idea when he would use those either. Leo was definitely pulling to stand prior to 7 months, but for some reason, he stopped trying for a while. He's been back at it for some time now and you can see the progress he's made in my original post.

 

[CaptainMummy]

Both of my youngest girls were walking at 9-9.5months, eldest was 10 months but she didnt cruise etc quite as early as the other two.

They both could cruise at 7 months, and could walk with their pushalong walker (well dd2 did, dd3 just pushed an activity table) before 8 months.
Dd2 didnt stand independently until a couple of days before she started walking, it sort of all came at the same time.. But dd3 was standing for 2/3 weeks before she started taking steps. I thought she was going to be walking before 9 months because of how good her balance was, but she never actually took a step until closer to 9.5 months. Dd2, who stood later took her first steps as she turned 9 months. Both were extremely steady straight away.

I think he will probably cruise first, and he is just practising his balance (since thats the typical 'order') but you may well have a quick walker on your hands. Good luck with that! Tiny 9 month olds walking about are cute... But oh my they are hard work!

 

[kellyc1987]

Lucas is a similar age to Leo (7 months 1 week) he seems to be doing pretty much all the things that Leo is doing, he crawls, pulls up on furniture and holds on with one hand, he has started cruising too but he doesn't walk when we hold his hands he just jumps up and down lol

 

[Larkspur]

My Noni was crawling just after 5 months (first rolled at 7 weeks!). She didn't walk till 10 months and she didn't cruise much, but she was a gun crawler. One day she pretty much just stood up, hung onto the furniture for a while, and then was like, "I could get places so much faster if I just walked." Then she was away.

 

[MindUtopia]

I think most babies cruise before they stand independently, but there's no reason it couldn't be the other way around, though definitely I'm sure my daughter was standing holding on with just one hand as well before she cruised, but she never stood without holding on at all until she started to walk. She crawled at 8 months, was cruising at 8.5 months, but didn't walk independently until 15 months. So there can be a lot of variation and long gaps in between one milestone and another, even when it seems like they're moving quickly.

 

[minties]

Thomas was doing this at that age also, but he didn't take his first steps until 11 months. I think his was a mental block about letting go of the furniture as he started cruising at the end of 6 months. Sophie also took her first steps at 11 months even though she didn't pull to stand until 9 months. She ended up being a much more stable walker than Thomas even though he had a lot longer to practice. I knew she was about to walk when she started letting go of the furniture and standing there not holding on to anything at 10.5 months.

 

[SarahBear]

Well Leo is starting to try to move between objects, so cruising isn't far off.

 

[sethsmummy]

I think it can vary greatly as
Sometimes they get right ahead and then stop and pick something else to master. Ds1 was 10 months when he walked independently (inc outside) and he did everything really fast. cruised at Almost 6 months and walking with the push along at 7.

Ds2 was slower of the mark but seems to explode at 6 months and was walking independently at 9 months on the dot.

Ds3 is a lot slower at 11 months and is just started cruising in the last week or so and letting go of the furniture. Crawling only happened a month ago aswell. So you very well could have a n early walker or he may wait and concentrate on another aspect of development first zz

 

[Cangaroo]

DD2 crawled, pulled up and started cruising at 7 months. She did it all within a week, and could walk with a push along walker at this stage too. She got more confident with cruising from then, and by 8 months was occasionally found nonchalantly standing unaided at times, until you pointed it out and she realised what age was doing and sat down! At about 9 months, she was standing unaided well. She walked across the room a few days before she turned 10 months, but it took nearly another month for her to be confident at walking. She stopped crawling completely at just before 11 months and is now walking everywhere very confidently.

They're all different. They do things in slightly different orders and it doesn't make any difference. II know several children who didn't walk until 18 months, and by 2 you can't tell the difference between those that walked at 28 months and those that walked at 9!