When could your LO actually walk up & down stairs?

karenmarie20 · April 2010

C has been crawling up and down stairs (using her belly) for a while but lately she's been trying to step up/down the stairs. She's still too small and ends up crawling.

So I'm wondering, when did your LO actually master walking up and down the stairs? TIA.

ss+el · April 2010

He just started doing stairs at all about a month ago. We taught him to step down holding a rail or someone's hand right away, but he's often still a bit nervous, so he usually goes up and down on belly & knees. Just in the last few days he's been braver about trying to step instead of crawl.

skidunks · April 2010

DS has just started holding onto the railing in the last few weeks. He still likes to be carried sometimes but he'll go up and down a lot of times by himself.

karenmarie20 · April 2010

ss+el:
He just started doing stairs at all about a month ago. We taught him to step down holding a rail or someone's hand right away, but he's often still a bit nervous, so he usually goes up and down on belly & knees. Just in the last few days he's been braver about trying to step instead of crawl.

I think we're the ones who are more nervous, sometimes she has no fear.

Thanks for the info ladies : )

Smores730 · April 2010

We don't have stairs in our home, but at Xmas time we were at a house with them and my DD spent the entire time going up and down them. She was just under 17 months. One of her steps going down though was on the edge of the step and thankfully I was on her butt waiting for it to happen. I still don't think I'd feel comfortable letting her go up and down without someone there.

GRKaters · April 2010

Not yet--and he's 22 months. The steps are too high for him, and he simply refuses to go down. He's a pro at going up on his belly/hands/knees.

ss+el · April 2010

karenmarie20:
ss+el:
He just started doing stairs at all about a month ago. We taught him to step down holding a rail or someone's hand right away, but he's often still a bit nervous, so he usually goes up and down on belly & knees. Just in the last few days he's been braver about trying to step instead of crawl.
I think we're the ones who are more nervous, sometimes she has no fear.
Thanks for the info ladies : )

Plenty of nerves coming from me as well at first. We have a ranch home and don't 'live' in our basement, so the most steps he ever has to navigate here are the two to get off our front porch. My parents have 4 from the deck to the yard. Short distances, less worry

krys2729 · April 2010

DS is almost 20 months, and he does our two garage porch steps holding onto the railing, and he does our flight of stairs pretty well scooting down on his bum. going up the flight is usually pretty easy, but if he lost his balance, he'd go tumbling, so either DH or i are ALWAYS there when he does stairs. and i don't forsee that changing for a good while. HTH.