My daughter took her first steps at 10 months and she took 13 full steps when she did - covering the full length of our living room. Then, she didn't walk again for a month. Babies are weird.
My son's first steps were actually running from one end of the room to the other. Running with head first into whatever is in front of him. It was hilarious
I got lucky and recorded my son's first steps at 10 months on camera. Walked away from his mom halfway across the room towards me, then turned around and went back to mom.
Yeah both my kids did this. My first took her first steps at 10 months and then was like nope for another month then just started walking at 11 months. But had zero interest in that month between. My second was very interested but it took 1.5 months for him to actual master taking more then 4/5 steps. But he tried several times a week. Then a few days before he turned 1 he just started walking.
I guess it depends what one calls "first steps". My daughters first step was like "1, 2, fall". Those weren't confident steps of course. How would a baby know how to walk 13 full steps?? There must have been "1, 2, fall" moments before that.
My son did. He was 9 months old, pretty much identical to what the baby in the video did. I’m glad I caught it on video and that my husband was home to see it. My son was giggling, he was so proud of himself, it was the cutest thing.
Reddit has no idea how babies work. Some skip crawling completely and walk straight across the house the first time they decide they want to. Others pull themselves up by a chair and fall on their ass 20 times before they even figure out how to pick up their foot
My kid NEVER crawled. So frustrating. She would stand up against the wall and shimmy around the room, just holding on to objects to keep herself up. We called it baby parkour lol.
My son crawled a little, but his favorite modes of transportation were bootyscooting backwards and sometimes rolling. Every kid is different, and it's so fun watching them figure it out.
Yeah, my daughter only scooched around on her butt all the time, until she one day (pretty late) suddenly stood up like the kid in the video, without holding anything, and walked around.
This was me at 9 months. One morning my mom got up to check on me and I was just standing in the hall staring at her. She was so freaked out, like something straight out of the shining lol. Even stranger still was that my crib bars were up, so not only was I walking but I climbed up, over, and out of my crib. I was in a toddler bed before I turned 1 because my parents were deathly afraid that I was going to hurt myself seeing as the height of the crib bars were probably a good 4ft+ off the ground.
Oh god, my little brother often freaked me out when he was a toddler. I distinctly remember sleeping and getting a weird feeling, then waking up to find him standing next to the bed, just staring at me silently 😭
My first memory is of escaping my crib at about 18 months old, so it's not impossible. Also, they never claimed to remember it, probably something their parents told them.
Reading all the comments from people who clearly don’t have kids of their own and don’t know how this process really works is hilarious. And they’re so confident too.
I used to like /KidsAreFuckingStupid but it's really turned into "reddit comments are fucking stupid" lately. They either want kids to have the reasoning skills of a fully grown adult or they think a toddler is a potato until they're 10.
I miss the way that sub used to be, it was more of a celebration of the inherent stupidity of kids figuring out how the world works. Now it's full of bitter childfree people and "parenting experts" who have never actually interacted with a kid in their entire life
That was me with riding a bike. When I was a kid, neighbor Dad was trying to get his son, who was the same age as me, to ride a bike with no training wheels for an hour, he kept falling and couldn't do it. They took a break, left the bike on the road, I walked up to it, asked if I could try and started riding it with zero problems. I was doing laps on the road going up and down the street.
I apparently skipped crawling and was walking by 8 months. My mom said I had to go to the hospital for something and the nurse took me out of the crib or whatever I was in and put me on the floor so she could clean it, and was shocked when I got up and started walking away.
My older brother apparently never crawled. He wobbled around on his butt like those toys you can't knock over until one day he just hopped up on his feet and started bouncing around. Like not quite understanding how walking works but definitely knowing enough to MOVE
My daughter went from pulling herself up to stand to running. There was no walking, if she wanted to move slowly she would crawl. She would run everywhere otherwise. She would use the walls and chairs as a brake. By brake I mean smack right into them full speed. She was about 3 years old when she started actually walking regularly.
I never really crawled as a baby. I went from scooting, sitting with one leg tucked under me and using the other leg to propel myself, to full-on walking.
My nephew skipped crawling and was late walking. Why? He figured a way to get about by basically barrel rolling everywhere. Apparently it served him until 14 months old until he figured to try this “walking” thing.
My kid crawls and pull himself up by any object that has a good height and try to start walking from there. It was same with every other development step, repeating 1000 times before you can go further. I somehow can't believe that a kid could just stand up like that for the first time and start walking. It looks very strange to me tbh and even if it's possible, her reaction looks 100% fake to me.
it’s so sad to me that people think because one child/baby/person is one way that must mean it’s like that for everyone. i’m happy for you and amazed your son was so strong! don’t worry about the people saying you missed his actual first steps
Same. I had the camera set up on the floor because she and our new kitty were playing so well together, destroying/spreading the recycling all over the kitchen. I thought it was a cute moment and wanted to share it with my husband later. To my surprise, she stood up just like the baby in the video and took quite a few steps. She even took a turn while walking, which shocked me even more. She eventually realized what she was doing and stopped out of shock/fear herself. It’s weird how people doubt the most simple things.
I did too, at 9 months! Shocked my grandparents who were babysitting that summer. Almost gave my grandma a heartattack when I walked into the kitchen 🤣. Some kids are very agile, I could have been a gymnast 🤸🏻.
My child is standing steadily, but he hasn't been confident enough to take a step forward. He only squats back down and crawls. The baby in the video is taking careful steps. Nice job trying to ruin someone's day, armchair parent with no child.
Trying to ruin someone's memory of their child's first steps that they witnessed, whether it be their actual first steps or not, is an extraordinarily disgusting feature of a human.
This happened with my youngest son when he was 9 months old. Skipped crawling and just got up one day and started walking. I called my ex husband at work like ‘you know this kid can walk now?!’
Is it possible your husband actually saw your son's first steps and didn't tell you because he didn't want to break your heart like you hear a lot of parents kind of lying about firsts with their children?
My second was kind of the same. I was holding her hands while she was squatting and she would just practice standing from the squat. Jokingly, I let her just sit there in the squat and she just stood up. Once she was standing she was balanced enough to start shuffling to me. All caught on video.
Well yea but your story goes against what skeptics with angst believe so it can’t be true!!
Yea my daughter did something similar to this for her first steps. She stood up and I jokingly told her to walk to walk to me not expecting her to take a step and she just did. And then did it again when my wife got home that day. I was able to record the second one
My daughter was standing by 6months. She just got up and stood there, we were confused as hell. She didn't walk until 13months. She literally stood up and just walked without cruising first. Both my boys cruised to steps though
I did baby mommy classes and they would often stand up by themselves before walking. I feel a bit bad because I stole first steps from mom once but she was in the room so they got to see it. We were playing and the baby stood up and just ran over to me. She did so well I had thought she’d done it before but mom and dad just started freaking out.
100% false but as usual redditors upvote shit just because it sounds confident.
The saying holds, the day you run into a subject you have expertise on that is being talked about on Reddit, you understand how wrong most of the shit here is.
The part that many people probably reacted to is that the baby was very comfortable in standing up from a squat, so probably not his first rodeo there.
Babies sure can re-order/skip certain movement phases, but this is just physics that they have to grow strong enough for certain movement types before they can execute them and this standing up is definitely not something happening overnight.
My daughter stood right up on her own in the middle of the living room with stacking rings around her arms and did a loop around the living room like she’d been doing it for years.
You’re talking about cruising, not walking. Those aren’t generally considered a baby’s “first steps”. When parents talk about first steps, they mean first unassisted steps.
Yes. And those aren't "first steps", as seen here. Since they're not independent.
Edit: Maybe I'm confused. Are you saying babies take their first *independent* steps but still have to pull themselves up using an aid such as furniture first? Because that's not typically how it works. Babies usually learn to stand independently long before they can walk independently.
I 100% agree this is staged, but my oldest had no issues standing right up, taking 5-6 steps, and plopping back down for her first steps at 9m. And hadn’t been using things to walk around to hold on to either, just decided one day she needed to be at another spot and walking was the fastest way to get there.
My daughter started standing independently like this and that’s how she took her first steps. Buuuut, she only took like one or two steps before falling so I’m doubting it’s this kids first rodeo.
Yes, this is true...and this baby may very well have been using an aid up until this moment. It could have mastered sitting up, standing and stepping with the aid. I think first steps with aid and without are very different achievements.
I don't know... my daughter doesn't walk yet, but we discovered this morning that she can stand up on her own. She looked around (maybe realised there were no chair/table to hold within reach?) and sat back down.
Yes, however, a child is considered to be able to walk when they stand up without aide and then take their step. Which often happens much later after they learn to pull themselves up, scoot around or walk from one piece of furniture to another nearby.
Babies taking their first steps still have to pull themselves up using an aide of some sort.
Not necessarily true. Babies don't all follow the same cookie cutter plan to take their first steps. Some need to pull themselves up, but I've seen many who master standing up before they figure out walking.
At least one child I know will probably take their first steps after standing up as confidently as that kid.
That said, I still think the video is bullshit. That kid seems vastly over confident for that to be the literal first steps. But might be very early, staged a day or two after the actual first steps if the kid is a quick study.
r/confidentlyincorrect lol. Every baby is different, some don’t need an aid at all. Some fall after the first two steps, some get up and walk into the other room. It’s dependent on so many variables in development
Yeah, I find it hard to believe that these are actually the baby's first steps. The separate motor skills required for them to walk independently take time and practice to develop. It doesn't just happen one morning. As a parent you would see them getting incrementally better at standing up, balancing, taking steps while holding onto something, etc., eventually putting it all together into walking independently.
The first moment that they walk without holding onto anything is still amazing, but they would've already been walking while holding onto something or someone.
Thank you! I don’t have children but I’m like, no way. I’d imagine a baby would leave on an object like a table or their crib first.
Edit: thanks for the facts, y’all.
Yeah, same. In fact all three of my kids took their first steps like this. They learn to stand up and sorta bounce in place before they learn to walk. I think my daughter first stood at like 9 months, and then first steps were at 10, fully walking around at 11.
I'd guess too that some baby toys and the like help with developing their little legs before they start walking. Like the door bouncer thing my baby sister just loved. Or those saucer dish ones they sit in and can push themselves around.
I don't think many babies "take first steps" like as a parent you play with your kids, hold their hands and pretend to walk training them etc. It's not like its a line where babies just stop crawling, stand up and walk perfectly. There are multiple levels, babies walking while holding on to stuff, babies taking one step and falling, babies walking with their parents and so on. Walking is a continuous learning thing, on multiple fronts. It would be extremely hard to draw a line where you say "that was not the first step" and "this was a first step".
Like when was the first time your kid draw something. The first time they got a hold of a tool that could make a mark, before they even could control their arms and understood their connection to them? The first time they made a mark on a piece of paper? First time you could actually recognize what they tried to draw?
It's very hard to put a straight binary measurement on something continuous or "a spectrum", especially when it's not even one spectrum but multiple, kids have to learn how to balance and all that. Some kids can basically run if you just help them a tiny bit with their balance, some kids can balance perfectly well but don't even get the concept of walking.
Nah first steps are absolutely a thing. I have my daughter's on video.
But it's usually pull themselves up (e.g. a couch) and toddle around with the support. But then there is a clear first time where they walk a short distance without any support.
So where do you draw the line? The first time they took 1 step? First time they took 2 steps? 3? 4? 5? The first time the let go of their support, took a step then grabbed the support again? The first time they managed to walk on a slope without falling? It's continuous learning.
The guy you were responding to already answered your question. Now you’re just overcomplicating something that is a very simple concept to most people.
My kids both started to freely stand prior to taking any steps. They would stand and kind of wobble unsure and sit down. With my daughter she was doing this but with her first steps she freely stood up right next to the stairs then placed her hands on the stairs and turn and sat. Then she had the gleam in her eyes like she was planning something big. She’s funny she’d get these sparkles in her eyes if she was determined. (Like when she was so so little she eyeballed the plug outlet and I saw it and said no no then she turned with this sparkle and started crawling super fast towards it. I had to run and grab her from pulling the plug lol.) But she sat there looking at me with that little twinkle so I was just watching her like Whachya planning baby girl and she stood up from sitting (did not pull up just stood straight from sitting) and then started walking toward me. I was cheering and she walked right up to me twinkles in her eyes the entire time. It was so incredible.
That’s literally what I just said. I mean I know I only have three and I’m still in the trenches but I remember that most babies start by cruising and don’t just get up like this lol
Kids work like that. It's not a gradual thing. It's why a lot of new parents stress out about meeting milestones. They know a milestone is coming up and they assume they should have seen some progress by now.
Nope. You can have a helpless bundle that can only gurgle, shit, and sleep one second, you turn your back to put something away, and turn back around to find that helpless lump has put on her jacket and is heading out the door with your car keys.
They literally just start doing things, like a switch get flipped.
I'm pretty sure all parents of young kids watched this video and thought the same thing. Those don't look like first steps at all. Baby's first step or two will end with them falling down and start with them leaning on something.
My kid wouldn’t walk independently unless he was holding onto our hand or some furniture. One day while he was sick and delirious he “forgot” and got up to get something. I was like hey! You’re walking! And he joyfully ran laps around the room for three minutes until he faceplanted. But it was a good three minutes to watch.
On the other hand this garbage from OP is a recreation of the moment done for social media.
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u/Psyonicpanda 21h ago
If these really are his first steps, he’s walking surprisingly confidently