What age did your baby do the big ones rolling over sitting sitting up standing walking ect?
[name_f]Persephone[/name_f] rolled over from her belly to her back at 3 months. That was early, but the first time was an accident. She was looking up at my room mate while doing tummy time then just sort of rolled. After that it was like she just knew what to do. She wouldn’t stay on her belly after that. She just kept flipping over. Then she stopped for about 2 weeks, then she started doing it again. She’s right at 4 months now.
She sits up on her own for the most part and she’s been doing that a month now too. You still have to sit right there with your hands on either side for when she loses her balance and falls over, but she can support herself. Now she hasn’t quite figured out how to sit completely up on her own yet. If I put her in her boppy pillow, she can pull herself up into sitting because she’s already halfway there. She can’t go from laying down to sitting up yet.
And she’s been working on her crawling. She probably won’t learn that for a while, but that’s what she’s chooses to work on during her tummy time. She puts her head down and her butt up and inch worms. She’s managed to scoot like that a whole foot but only once and only with her daddy sitting in front of her. She wouldn’t do it for me -_- But she has gotten turning in circles perfectly. She can twist herself fully around by now.
I also think she’s working on teething because of all the drool and how often she shoves my finger into the back of her mouth and chews. She’s eating textured cereal and she’s working on holding her own bottle.
She started sleeping through the night at 1 month. I know that’s rare I guess, but my nurse told me “Stop waking her up every 4 hours. If she’s hungry, she’ll wake you up.” And so 2 days after I stopped going to wake her up, she slept 9 hours. She’s been doing that ever since, just sleeping 7 or 8 hours at night.
[name_m]Levin[/name_m] also rolled from his belly to back at three months. He was a very strong baby, though. The nurses all commented on that. He could hold his head up from birth, which is unusual. He rolled from back to belly at six months. He started army crawling at six months. He couldn’t sit up on his own until eight months- then he started proper crawling, sitting up and pulling up all on the same day. He started walking the day after his first birthday. He never practiced it- just pulled himself up one day and walked across the kitchen, so proud of himself. He started running, dancing, and jumping shortly after that.
He started sleeping through the night (12 hours straight! [name_f]Praise[/name_f] the [name_m]Lord[/name_m]!) at five months, when we put him in his own crib and room. He switched into a twin bed (due to jumping out of the crib) at around 19 months. He got his first tooth at six months and has all but a couple of teeth now (at 22 months.)
He smiled late (at 2 months) but then started laughing on the same day that he started smiling. Laughing on purpose was my favorite milestone.
He was the same way with talking- he didn’t have any words at all until almost eighteen months, but then he went from zero to short sentences (“up chair” “doggie barkin’” stuff like that). He started singing at the same time, which I love. Now he is almost two and has lots of longer sentences. It is really amazing to be able to communicate with him more and more! We did do a few baby signs, starting at six months. It took about three months of us doing them consistently for him to start copying them. We stuck to very basic ones, like “milk” and “more” and “all done.” That was really helpful in cutting down on his frustration with not being able to tell us what he wanted.
Yes [name_f]Persephone[/name_f] was the same with her head holding. She could do that a few hours after birth. Not really high, but she could. By her 2 week check she was holding her head and chest up. She’s very strong.
I’m really looking forward to trying to teach her some signs. 
I hope she picks them up as quickly as she did everything else.
These moments are so exciting! I feel like my [name_f]Lil[/name_f] one is taking a break & its so strange now after her trying to do everything. She was also always trying to hold her head up very young & always trying to sit from at least 2 months on - she would never lay down! Now she sits well at 4 months but rather hold my finger for balance otherwise shell get distracted & toplple over soon after.
I feel like she slept better at 2-3 months than now. She would only wake up once to eat &now its like 2-3 times but only like half asleep & right back it. I was never huge on belly time but she finally rolled over. AfAfter that she was like apro but now she stopped again & shell just lay there & occasionally work on bringing her legs up trying to crawl.
[name_f]Lillian[/name_f] is almost 4 months…she just started rolling consistently from back to belly a few days ago…so 14 weeks. She started rolling belly to back around 12 weeks I think?
She still can’t sit without support, but can pull herself up from a reclined position (such as a boppy or my lap), but she flops right over.
I was a very late talker but an early walker.
[name_f]Livvy[/name_f] smiled super early, she had been random smiling since birth, but real response smiled on her one month birthday.
Rolling over, so far (12 weeks) she’s only done belly to back a couple times when she decides she’s had it with tummy time. Expecting that will become more consistent in the next month or so though since I know she CAN do it.
She would raise her head when held from birth too, but started having more control over it in general around 10 weeks.
@dantea, can [name_f]Persephone[/name_f] please explain to her how this sleeping through the night early thing works? 
Although I suppose I should be happy we’re getting a good 5-6 hour stretch consistently the last few weeks. That will be a very exciting day.
lol I don’t know how it happened but I’m so lucky. The next one will probably keep me awake every 2 hours to make up for it. 
I just never woke her up to feed her at night, even in those first few weeks. At the daycare, we never woke the babies up to eat, even when they were 6 weeks. So I just never bothered with her and my nurse and doctor agreed that if she was hungry, she’d wake me up. She slept 8 hours like 2 nights after that. She’s been doing that this whole time now. We have nights were she only sleeps 3 or 4 hours, but most of the time I can get her to sleep 6-9. I also keep her awake a lot longer than usual at night. I keep her awake for 4 or 5 hours until it’s bed time and then I feed her and lay her down.
A lot of babies will sleep through the night for a period and then stop. [name_f]Lillian[/name_f] went from 7 weeks til I think 13 weeks alternating sleeping through (6-7 hours) or just waking once in between, then had this hellish week when she woke every 1 or 2 hours.
Now she’s sleeping sometimes 9-7 am (but usually wakes at 5 or 6), but minimum 7 hours. Idk how long that will last though
[name_m]Patrick[/name_m] rolled over at 4 months, sat up at 5 months, crawled at 8 months but didn’t walk until 15 months.
[name_f]Mary[/name_f] took awhile to get going and was almost 8 months before she rolled over. Then she took off and was sitting up on her own a couple weeks later and crawling a week after that and standing by 10 months. She took her first steps a week before her first birthday.
We’ve hit a smaller milestone this week - grabbing objects! I was a bit worried as she had never even reached or batted at anything, but suddenly she’s reaching for and holding objects offered to her all in one go.
[name_f]Persephone[/name_f]'s been playing with her stuffed bear teether thing for a few weeks (not well) but today she discovered rattles! We handed her one and she looked at it and switched it from hand to hand, then I reached out and shook her arm, then she shook it, then she shook it for about 5 minutes on her own. She’s also started playing with her feet in the last few days and holding her bottles (for the most part). I love watching her learn things!
My daughter didn’t sleep through the night until she was 20 months old. She never crawled. She began standing around her first birthday, only by holding on to things. She began walking with someone holding her hands around 14 months. She didn’t sit up until 18 months. She recently turned three years old, and we still have to do exercises for her lumbar muscles, and I still have to correct her sitting posture constantly.
All the motor skills aside… she can count to 20, understands and recognizes numbers. She knows all her colors. She’s known, recognized, and been able to sing her ABCs for well over a year now. She can put a 24 piece jigsaw puzzle together herself. She makes up complex stories with her toys- carrying on an imaginary conversation/ interaction between two dolls for 10-15 minutes without stopping. And she’s already reading, but nothing more difficult than the super easy “I Can [name_u]Read[/name_u]” books.
I don’t understand why parents feel the need to compare milestones. Milestones should be discussed with your doctor, celebrated amongst family& close friends, and after that… it’s like religion or politics-- impolite to discuss amongst strangers (at the playground, etc). A parent whose child has a developmental delay will often feel judged by this common behavior of comparing milestones. Some of us aren’t so lucky to have a 100% healthy child.
I think it’s important to discuss milestones when you have a presumably healthy child, so that you can know if there are any red flags to bring up with your doctor. It’s not something I’d bring up to complete strangers, but friends or an Internet forum where people can choose to participate or not I think it’s an acceptable conversation to have.
I think moms judge a lot of things, but I’ve never witnessed someone judging parents based on when babies reach milestones such as walking, rolling over, etc.
If I didn’t wish to discuss my child’s delayed development, I’d just say “my daughter has some medical issues, so she’s reaching milestones at a different rate than typical babies. We’re very proud of her progress” or something along those lines.
No one’s judging anyone, we’re just very proud of our children and want to share our excitement. You shouldn’t feel judged or bad for her being behind and especially if she has medical problems. You should be proud of what she can do and how she does it. If I were you, I would be ecstatic that she can do all that stuff in that middle section. There’s a lot of 3 year olds I worked with who couldn’t do nearly that much. [name_u]Truly[/name_u], congrats! She’s sounds like she very smart.
I don’t think it’s really the same as religion or politics, but I understand what you’re saying.
Rolling over & sitting up - Probably 4 months?
Crawling - Around 6 or 7 months
Standing on her own & “furniture walking” - Around 10 months
Walking without support - [name_m]Just[/name_m] starting to do that now (15 months)
First word - She babbles all the time, she has been able to say Mama and Dada for a while, but she just learned to say “No” recently.