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[quote=Anonymous]Our 11 mo DD is trying to walk.  She skipped crawling.  She is rolling over, not sitting up well, and not interested in pulling herself up.  She can stand assisted, walk holding fingers so well.  She doesn't want to cruise without holding our hands.  She will stand and play on something for a couple of minutes.  But, most of the day, she wants to walk or run around the house.  This requires us to be bent over with her holding one or both fingers. Kills. Our. Backs. She can stand up on her own, but won't pull herself up on things, she will only use our fingers to get up.  She cries when left on the floor.  She cries when we try to get her to crawl.  She's not interested in playing on the floor on her own or trying to crawl at all.

It's like the universe says, "Oh? So you think skipping crawling would be cool?  Lemme show you!"

This has been going on for 3 months.  We've seen a little progress week to week, but she's still completely dependent on us to get around.  This baby not crawling, not pulling up, but finger walking 24/7 is going to be the end of us.  I thought the end of this last wonder week two weeks ago would push us into something new, but we got not much.  She's sitting up a little better.  Ugh.

To make matters worse, she won't let anyone else hold her or walk her around.  We see family from time to time, and she screams if anyone else holds her besides DH, me, or my mom.  We just visited family, and even though we were staying with people for days, people she's seen before several times, she didn't let anyone else walk her around.  DH works too much (not by choice), barely sees her during the week.  My mom, who watches her during the day, is about to fall apart.  She is having a hard time with the bending over for 6 hours a day.  I want to hire someone to help my mom with the walking a few hours a week, but no one is going to be able to hold her.  What?  We invest a month trying to coax her into letting someone else hold her for that person to be unavailable after that or something else happen?  We don't have any other family in the area, no childless friends who can drop by regularly to try to get on her sweet side.

What can we do to end this madness?[/quote]

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