Baby Walking At 10 Months

Early walking comes with its advantages and disadvantages and also a few surprises.

Baby walking at 10 months.

If you had told me years ago that my baby would start walking and then almost immediately running at 9 months old i would have laughed in your face. Walking is now just a couple of months away so you can expect your baby to soon be on the go even more. The cdc recommends talking to your child s pediatrician if they re not walking at all by 18 months and not walking steadily by age 2 so you have plenty of time even if your little one hasn. My daughter started walking at 10 months old almost skipping the crawling stage which lasted all of four weeks.

My son started walking at 9 months and was a full time walker at 10 months and everyone was amazed. During her first year your baby is busy developing coordination and muscle strength in every part of her body. Every baby reaches the walking milestone at a different time. Although 10 months is considered within the realms of normal it s certainly not typical.

Children at this age are pretty. Remember try not to stress about when your baby is going to walk and maybe cherish those final few months of crawling before life gets very interesting indeed. Don t worry if your child takes a little longer though. However your baby will likely take his first steps between 9 and 15 months.

Of course it also depends on how you define walking some parents will boast that their baby began walking at 9 months but they re usually talking about the kind of walking a baby does while holding onto something known as cruising. Most moms i know hope their babies will be walking for their 1st birthday and often don t. The only thing i knew about when babies take their first steps was the story my parents always told about me which was that i didn t really walk till i was 18 months old. Some perfectly normal children don t walk until they re 16 or 17 months old.

She ll lurch along like frankenstein as she gets used to. Most babies take their first steps sometime between 9 and 12 months and are walking well by the time they re 14 or 15 months old. At 10 months your baby s coordination has improved a lot.