All mothers constantly monitor the development of their baby. The first tooth, independent sitting or active crawl pleases many parents. Information about when children begin to walk is very valuable to them. It is so interesting to learn about when the baby will begin to take the first steps on his own.
The first few years of a child’s life are the most important, since it is at this time that he learns to sit, crawl, walk, talk. If the baby later masters these skills, moms begin to worry about whether their child is behind in development. It is worth understanding the main rule - each child develops individually.
Understanding the question of when the children begin to walk, it is worth considering that for this action the baby needs a sufficiently strong spine. So, for example, at 7 months the baby's spine cannot yet be fully prepared for this. When do babies start walking? On average, about a year. But this can happen both earlier and later.
So, the children take their first independent steps closer to the first year of life. But it is considered normal if the baby begins to "become active" already from 9 months. If, by the age of 15 months, the child still does not want to walk on his own, it is worthwhile to seek the advice of an orthopedist, since this may indicate the presence of some problems in the baby's body. Before 9 months, children begin to walk only in walkers, when they have support from all sides. By the way, such children take independent steps much later than those who did not walk in walkers. This is due to the fact that there is an addiction to the support, on which the children continue to count on.
There are situations when for some time the child tried to walk on his own, and then abruptly stopped doing it. It is worth paying attention to such a fact, since the reasons for such behavior can be fraught with danger. The main enemies of walking training are various stressful situations that knock kids out of the rut. So, for example, moving to a new place of residence, illness, etc. can affect the desire to walk. Often the reason that the child does not want to take steps on their own is falls that inevitably happen when the children begin to walk. Having hit a couple of times, the child may decide that the process of walking is connected exclusively with pain and should postpone his training. No need to worry, because after a while the baby will surely begin to make new attempts of independent walking.
The problem may be the situation when the child began to walk on toes. Most often this happens with children who are actively stomping in walkers at the wrong height. Not reaching the whole foot to the floor, the kids could push off with socks to move. And with independent attempts, such movements remain. Time can help the baby here. Sooner or later, he will realize that walking this way is very uncomfortable. Equally important is the role of parents, who must tell and show how to correctly put the foot when walking. Very rarely in such a situation the help of a specialist is needed.