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[quote=Anonymous]OP here.  I am not at all concerned that she's developmentally delayed.  She's protested consistently from very early on.  We started more tactics to get her to pull herself up yesterday and today, and they are working better than before.  I don't know why.  Maybe I didn't give this leap enough time to set in before expecting changes.  I asked my mom,who watches her during the day, if she thinks she sits up well, and my mom said yes, a lot better than before.  "Just look!  She can catch herself if she falls over!"  And sure enough, she stopped herself.  I just think my expectation was that I could leave her to (happily) play sitting for 5 minutes while I did something else. But she doesn't want to be left alone, so she tries to stand up, which she can't do yet, so she flops over.

When I got home from work last night, I plopped a boob on the blanket on the floor and told the hungry baby to come get it.  She crawled/scooted/army crawled...I don't know what it was.  She did some sort of crawling motion with knees and everything to get to me.    After her first nap today, I didn't pick her up after nursing on my side a bit.  I told her to come get me.  She tried to stand up like we were helping her up, but she couldn't.  Eventually, she rolled over, moved herself around, and crawled to me.

So, I think she can do it now.  I think many of you are right that we need to encourage her to do so more.

Thanks, pp, for posting the link about the babies who don't crawl, they are just set down to walk after a year.  That is reassuring.

We do have a learn-to-walk harness.  She hates it.  We have a walker, a push walker, and a jumper.  She can't support herself with the push walker without assistance just yet.  We have hard wood floors and that thing TAKES OFF!  The carpet works better, but the rooms are so small here that it's hard to go anywhere without hitting a wall or crap.  Yes, we'd love to knee walk more, but these hardwood floors are original from 80 years ago, and they are HARD.  Her running from one end of the house to the other makes it hard to transition from knees to standing quickly.

We will try the spoon and blanket suggestions, though my mom is worried about not being closer to her if she falls on the hard wood floor.  I do think it will give her confidence, but as pp said, require her to use other muscles.  We have some padding and blankets, but this girl loves to run from one end of the house to the other again and again.

Thanks all, for the responses and suggestions. We are going to try to not let her be so depending on us walking her around at times to get her moving around on her own more.[/quote]

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