Late Walkers

Our GD was 22 months before she walked, hey nursery were concerned and had suggested there was a physical problem.

Our daughter and husband were very concerned.

She came to stay with us for a week as her parents were both away with work, we took her to a soft play for three consecutive days, on day two she walked and day three she was running and jumping.

Our daughter cried when she received the video of her first steps!

Consider the possibility that he may have dyspraxia, Dyspraxia is nothing to worry about. It falls into the neural diversity bag with dyslexia, ADHD etc and it means that you tend to have poor fine motor control.

DS and I both have it. It means we were slow to walk, ride bikes, our hand writing is atrocious and we are cack handed. Unless it is very severe and if this child has it, it is unlikely to be severe, because there would be other problems. you can go through life perfectly normally, as DS and I have done, and beyond knowing that we lack the fine motor control needed to be brain or heart surgeons, it has caused us veyr few problems.

My middle daughter was a late walker and they finally realised that she had a severe astigmatism..once she had glasses off she went!

I remember taking my DD to see the GP for exactly what you describe. She could crawl at a million mph, but flatly refused to walk. The GP checked her over, especially her hips and said that DD was very bright and knew that crawling was quicker than tottering! I took DD home, put her on the lounge floor and the little b****r got up and walked across the room! 🙄😂

I would recommend his parents to move as many of his toys as possible out of his reach. Right now he may well crawl to fetch them, but sooner or later it will dawn on him that it is easier to walk holding Teddy than to crawl.

Don't worry about this - he will get up and walk in his own good time, as there is obviously nothing physically wrong with him.

I had a niece who never crawled, she sat on her backside playing with the toys within reach or those her big sister handed her. When we stopped sister being so kind, lo and behold! The I-have-never-bothered-crawling-girl got to her FEET and WALKED,

I am reluctant to give advice, having retired 13 years ago. But this fits with my advice from my health visiting practice (although I wouldn't have referred to a physio)
I am presuming that there were no other concerns at his 18 month check?
So assuming all other development is normal, this is within normal range. The issue with 'late walkers' is that they often manage so well (as you have described) that they don't have quite the impetus to walk alone.
He has trained nursery staff observing him, and is 'in the system'. In my day we would get a hip Xray if not walking at 24 months (I would think they scan now) just in case.
Regarding children who were only late walkers (no other issues apparent) I never had one who didn't walk by 30 months. They all caught up and developed normally.
This is definitely a 'watch and wait', and he has people 'watching'.

My middle son didn’t want to walk. His 18months younger brother walked at 8 months. I had the older one in a pushchair and the younger one toddling beside me at times. No problem once he got going

If a professional who has seen thousands of children is not concerned then I wouldn't be, if he can walk with handholding then physically he is capable.

I have a nephew who did not walk independently until his second birthday, he was a fast crawler and pulled himself up on furniture when he needed to reach something. On his birthday he saw a gift on the table and was so focused on that that he walked to it and then never stopped.

Mine were all slow walkers , they didn’t crawl , bum shuffled , I think the middle boy was 22 months before he took a few steps