Grandson not walking at 15 months

Annika. Glad to hear about your now walking grandson. What else has he learnt to climb - not out of the window I hope!! Good luck when he starts talking.

Zenella You have to smile my non walking grandson has now learnt not only to walk but he has now perfected the art of climbing out of his cot , he is driving his poor mum up the wall !

Annika. Pleased the worrying is over. I had much the same problem and mine didn't walk until he was over 2. It was worrying because his littler sister who was born 15 months later was walking before she was a year old. My mother put me straight though. She said there was nothing to worry about - "your boy is just bone idle"!!!!

My son didn't walk until he was 3 - at 15 months he got up on those feet and ran everywhere !!

Be warned. I remember that absentdaughter started climbing – on furniture until I showed her how to do it on a climbing frame in the park – within a week or two of walking without holding on.

I am tempted to ask why he hasn't started on astrophysics yet!

And you spend ages getting them to talk and then they don't stop talking well that is till they reach the teenage years and then they just grunt at you !

And don't they move fast almost as soon as they can stand upright!

You spend the first couple of years persuading them to walk and talk and the next ten years telling them to sit down and be quiet

crimson I think rugby will be his game. His mum (my DD) is English but his dad is Welsh. They live in Wales and rugby seems the game to follow there. Now the rest of our family follow football and I have to admit I haven't a clue about the rules of rugby !

He'll be kicking a football next week! Great stuff.

Annika You will be running around after him this time next week,well done DGS.xx

Cheers for your GS!

Here is an up-date to my first comment put here on the 23rd dec. GS is now taking up to three steps at a time . I knew he could do it !

One of my GSs was quite late walking, compared with his sister and cousins. But I was sure he was, quite simply, satisfied with his means of locomotion - hands and knees, hands and feet, bum-shuffle. He managed to get to the top of the slide in the garden, so why bother walking? He is a very tall 7-year-old now.

My Ds is very tall for his age and did'nt walk until 16 months. We thought it would never happen. Now its hard to remember a time when he did'nt x

Yes my GD very early talker. Little brother later starting in comparison. Caught up now though. My friend's son was incredibly late getting teeth. I think he was over a year before any emerged. They turned up in the end.

My eldest daughter began talking very, very early and was reciting whole books and nursery rhymes at just two years old. In consequence I worried that my second child was a really slow developer when she was only just beginning to join words together at two. I'm glad to say that I eventually grew very blasé about when my children achieved their 'milestones' and just enjoyed whatever stage they were at.

My GS's cousin on his father's side was walking on her knees until she was 18 months old. It made everyone wince to see her, but now at three she is a lovely little girl who walks quite normally.

My DS1 walked at 14 months, DS2 at 21 months.
My three oldest grandchildren all walked shortly after their first birthdays.DGC4 was 21 months and DGC5 was 22 months.She ''walked'' on her knees from around 14 months, but is flat footed so that may have been the cause.
My mother had five children.Four of us were walking around 15 months, the other, my brother, walked at 10 months.
All babies are differant.

Hope you are not losing them now Charlotta!
Just like everybody above my 3 daughters all walked at different ages - middle one was nearly 2. They all gt there unless there is a problem and that would have been apparent by now.

I took my daughter to the clinic at 14 months, and to all questions, teeth? talking? walking? etc I had to answer No.
The nurse looked at her and said. 'Well she looks intelligent' and that turned out to be true, but I wasn't to know that and was quite down for a while.
She now runs half-marathons.

We were all late getting and losing teeth and the GCs are the same.

Cyril (fsmile) How wise you are.

My grandson [the one who isn't dry at night yet] has always been late doing everything..walking, talking etc. I can remember worrying about his walking [I can't remember his age] and then suddenly he was walking and kicking a football! The same with his speech. His brother was late walking as well. They won't do it till the right muscles have developped either but, as you say, why bother with walking when you can do whatever you like in other ways!

Thanks for all your comments as I am sure you all know daughters tend to take no notice of mum!
Her friends have sent some words of encouragement so she seems ok now!
I am sure he walk when he wants to at the moment he can get everywhere by crawling and climbing over things!
Merry christmas