Mamas with walking babies - a ?

cassoppea · May 2012

Over the past week A has started standing for long periods of time without holding on. She can also get from sitting to standing without pulling up on something. Last night it seemed like she was thinking about how to move but she just can't figure it out. When your kids got to this point, how long did it take them to figure out how to take steps? I can never tell how close A is to doing something. I thought she was going to start crawling for 3 months until she finally got it. But she learned to pull herself up on furniture in one day.

SarahKate31 · May 2012

One week. One week from when he started letting go and standing on his own for a few seconds to when he took his first steps. Then over the next two weeks he went from hesitantly taking a couple steps to confidently wandering around the room. It happened SO fast!!

DS took forever to crawl too. It looked like he was *just about* to crawl for weeks and weeks before he managed it.

cassoppea · May 2012

SarahKate31:
One week. One week from when he started letting go and standing on his own for a few seconds to when he took his first steps. Then over the next two weeks he went from hesitantly taking a couple steps to confidently wandering around the room. It happened SO fast!!
DS took forever to crawl too. It looked like he was *just about* to crawl for weeks and weeks before he managed it.

Oooh boy.... Time to put up the rest of the gates!

cassoppea · May 2012

Where in CT are you by the way? Did you change your name or did I just never notice you were in CT?

gymnst1013 · May 2012

N has been standing without holding on and standing up without pulling himself up on anything for over a month now - probably closer to 6 weeks - but still no walking

SarahP15 · May 2012

DS has been pulling up and cruising along furniture and walking with his walker toy (the push kind) for several months now. He was standing alone for period of time maybe a week or two before he took his first real steps. Now he walks all over the house.

tulipblossom · May 2012

It was a few weeks from standing unassisted before she took any steps. And it was about 2 weeks or so once she started taking a step or two to get the idea of going very far by walking. O has been walking for about 6 weeks now and she still prefers to crawl about 75% of the time

amberpro · May 2012

Actually, the standing unassisted and getting up without pulling up came AFTER the walking, lol.

He would take 2 steps at a time for about 2-3 weeks, but once he got more than 2, it took less than 2 weeks to be a pro walker/stander/get upper.

Syncronicity09 · May 2012

Ash didn't figure out how to stand without pulling up until weeks after he started walking. I guess they all do it in their own order!

It was probably 2 or 3 weeks from the time he started standing on his own to taking steps.

He actually tried to take steps the firs time he pulled up and it went hilariously wrong...so I think he was afraid to try again for awhile.

cassoppea · May 2012

I guess every child is different. We'll see when A gets the courage to take some steps!

Telly21182 · May 2012

Our niece started standing on her own for extended periods of time about a month before she started walking. She started walking 4/14 (I was there decorating the LOs baptism cake that's how I know the date!), and she's 11 months today.

kimbo1216 · May 2012

I think my kid might hold the record for going the longest from standing to walking. Lol. Audrey started really crawling at 5.5 months. Around the same time she started pulling up to standing. A few weeks later she was standing unassisted and going from sitting to standing without holdin on to anything really easily. She took 2 steps at 8.5 months. She maxed out at 4 the next couple of weeks. Then, during month 9....nothing. Lol. It wasn't until the last 2 weeks or so that she really started walking well.

So for us, I'd say 3 months. Keep in mind she is probably the exception. Lol

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