5 Steps To Her First Steps

Walking is perhaps one of the most looked-forward-to milestones in a tiny tot’s progress. Now that your baby’s been around for almost a year and her first steps seem to be just around the corner, it’s not surprising that you’re becoming quite the anxious parent. But put that digital camcorder aside for a few minutes, take a few deep breaths, and let M&B’s road map to walking set the right pace

Before your baby leaves behind babyhood and starts walking, there will be a lot of preparations that her body will make, right from birth. Developing strong muscles and learning coordination skills would be two important things. When your newborn cycles away to glory, whether while lying down or dangling while held upright, she’s getting her leg muscles ready for the big day. She’ll do this for a few months with better speed as she grows. While she’s at it, she’ll also learn to roll over sometime between the ages of three to four months. By five months, if you make her stand on your thighs, she’ll bounce up and down, another step that takes her closer to her walking milestone. Sitting at six months and crawling at seven—this is how the sequence of events falls after that. If you’re lucky, your little darling will take support and stand up in the eighth month itself, but don’t be worried if she doesn’t make an effort to do so even till 12 months.