Walking or Talking?
By jonaida
@jonaida (574)
Philippines
8 responses
@zavansky (57)
• United States
5 Jul 07
This is exactly what my baby does, although she is only 12 months. She has about 4 words and hardly even walks with help. The doctor said not to worry until she is 18 months and still not walking. Hope that helps. Children usually focus on one thing at a time. For my daughter, and probably for yours it is more important to them right now to learn the art of communication.
@ragmama (536)
• United States
5 Jul 07
My daughter talked first - she said her first word at 8 months and had more than 20 words by one year. She concentrated on that more than anything else, I think - she didn't walk until 15 months.
@MGarcia (330)
• United States
8 Jul 07
My daughter started saying a few words around 8 months. Like monkey, da da, and mama. She started walking around 10.5 months. She didn't really start saying a lot of words and forming sentences until around 17 months. So it's a mixture, but I would say walking was first due to the fact that she only said a couple of words before then.
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@vivekthemaster (413)
• India
6 Jul 07
Well I don't have any babies. But my sisters baby started to walk first. She used to say some words like mama, da da,etc. which are very common.
But the first among the two was walking first.
@tere77 (51)
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5 Jul 07
My 5 month old baby first uttered the words okay, mama and hi between 2-5 months. He is still learning to take a few steps with the support of his daddy. We could see that he really smiles when we make him stand and help him take a few steps. But he still has to learn how to crawl.
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@pumpkinjam (8767)
• United Kingdom
5 Jul 07
My first child seemed to try everything all at once but he walked on his own at 9 months but couldn't talk very well until he was nearly 2 years old. My second child has been completely different. I don't remember him not talking. He said his first clear words before he could even crawl! I think he was about 9 months when he crawled but had been talking quite well by then. He speaks very clearly now, he's just turned 2 but he didn't walk by himself until about 2 months ago.
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