micro moms

thishappyhouse · May 2013

When did your kids truly start walking? V has been cruising since december and taking steps for about 5 weeks and while she seems to be getting better the progress towards truly walking seems painfully slow.

She is a former 25 weeker, now 18.5 months. She did not experience any brain bleeds. We get PT 1x/week. We have push toys galore. any insight?

AlwaysSunny925 · May 2013

My boys are 25 weekers. Aiden took his first steps around two weeks ago (19 months) and is just now starting to walk more and more. He started cruising a while ago. Probably around December as well. Don't worry. She will walk when she is ready.

thishappyhouse · May 2013

AlwaysSunny925:
My boys are 25 weekers. Aiden took his first steps around two weeks ago (19 months) and is just now starting to walk more and more. He started cruising a while ago. Probably around December as well. Don't worry. She will walk when she is ready.

thanks. I needed to hear this. The progress has just been so slow that I am starting to get frustrated.

rednelson · May 2013

Not a micro mom (so take this for what it's worth), but my son has been delayed and in PT and OT 1x per week for almost a year now. We would encourage walking by sitting him on a stool and getting him to stand up and take steps towards us. It helped him having to stand up and get his balance without holding on to anything and i think that really helped his confidence as well. He really didn't take off though until he was able to get himself from sitting (on the ground) to standing without pulling up. It took a really long time for him to go from cruising and taking steps to full on walking. She'll be there soon! Good luck!

DrRx · May 2013

Adalyn is a 26 weeker and she started walking a couple of weeks ago a little bit before 15 months. She had been cruising since about Feb/March, so it took a while from cruising to walking. She wanted NOTHING to do with push toys. She would just turn into spaghetti legs when we tried to get her to push/walk with them.

thishappyhouse · May 2013

rednelson:
Not a micro mom so take this for what it's worth, but my son has been delayed and in PT and OT 1x per week for almost a year now. We would encourage walking by sitting him on a stool and getting him to stand up and take steps towards us. It helped him having to stand up and get his balance without holding on to anything and i think that really helped his confidence as well. He really didn't take off though until he was able to get himself from sitting on the ground to standing without pulling up. nbsp;It took a really long time for him to go from cruising and taking steps to full on walking. nbsp;She'll be there soon! Good luck!nbsp;

This sounds a lot like my DD. she can't get to standing from the ground. She has to pull up on something... Hence crawling is much more efficient. Was there anything that helped him get to standing on his own?

We do use the stool exercise a lot! She is pretty confident getting from sitting on the stool to walking to us.

My gut tells me that her core is still quite weak and she spends a lot of time in flexion and there are probably some spatial/balance issues related to that.

I'm just starting to see how her lack of walking is starting to hold her back in other development.

rednelson · May 2013

Weak core was a big issue with my DS. We did a lot of exercises on a yoga ball. He would sit on the ball and we would roll it back and forth and side to side. We'd also put him on his belly and rolled forward to work on his protection reflexes (ie putting his hands out to stop from falling). Our PT wound bring a balancing board and hold him standing on it and gently rock it to work on balance/core. We bought one of those inflatable balance discs and would have him sit on that and play. As far as learning to stand up without pulling up I would show him how when he was in a crawling position by tucking one leg under first. I'm not sure if we really encouraged it any other way, it was something just kinda clicked with him. I know I got really impatient about walking for a bit, but our PT would remind me how important crawling is for development.

thishappyhouse · May 2013

rednelson:
Weak core was a big issue with my DS. We did a lot of exercises on a yoga ball. He would sit on the ball and we would roll it back and forth and side to side. We'd also put him on his belly and rolled forward to work on his protection reflexes (ie putting his hands out to stop from falling). Our PT wound bring a balancing board and hold him standing on it and gently rock it to work on balance/core. We bought one of those inflatable balance discs and would have him sit on that and play. As far as learning to stand up without pulling up I would show him how when he was in a crawling position by tucking one leg under first. I'm not sure if we really encouraged it any other way, it was something just kinda clicked with him. I know I got really impatient about walking for a bit, but our PT would remind me how important crawling is for development.

Thank you for these suggestions. they are very helpful! We will have to get the yoga ball back out. We used it for alot of tummy time and core activities when she was little but we should bring it back out. Our PT is letting us borrow a balance disc and we try to do a few activities each day on that.

Its so ironic because at one point we were so worried that she might not crawl and go straight to knee walking or something similar so we worked really hard on crawling and she mastered that right around 12.5 months actual. patience... patience...

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