The pediatrician doesn’t quit. Today she was shocked that a 4-month-old doesn’t yet stand.
I suspect she’s one of those Tiger Moms whose children are terrified into standing at 4 months and into marching to their violin lessons, little violins clutched in plump baby hands, at 6 months.
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This is very strange. I have literally never heard of a child who can stand at 4 months. I would think that it would almost be cause for alarm? I actually don’t even know of babies who can sit or even crawl at 4 months. 4 months old is the beginning of “tummy time” and that’s about it. This is very bizarre to me.
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At the six-month appointment, I’m fully prepared to hear, “What, she hasn’t defended her PhD thesis yet??”
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I suspect she’s one of those Tiger Moms whose children are terrified into standing at 4 months and into marching to their violin lessons, little violins clutched in plump baby hands, at 6 months.
And when you wonder who is playing the world’s tiniest violins of sympathy for people who don’t deserve it, these are the violinists.
The pediatrician doesn’t quit. Today she was shocked that a 4-month-old doesn’t yet stand
She’s either confused about Klara’s age or has only seen gifted sports prodigy babies.
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She tried to get her to stand but the little one had no idea what was happening and didn’t put her feet flat on the surface.
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Are there ANY competent doctors in your area? This is a frightening pattern.
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You sure have some nutty doctors!
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You need another doctor. That one is positively bonkers. Roughly, 6 months is the age for sitting, 9 months for pulling up/crawling, a year for walking. For each one of these milestones you have a couple of months wiggle room, but I have never heard of a baby standing at 4 months (some probably do, but it’s very unusual).
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So, I remember the pediatrician asking me a similar thing when my children were a similar age and being similarly confused. Turns out, they don’t really mean stand the way we would normally use the word (as in “balance, standing by themselves”, which happens at ~10 months). They mean “can bear weight on legs” (while an adult provides support for balance). When this was explained to me, I realized that mine did in fact do this by this age, and most likely Klara will do so in the next month or so:
http://www.babycentre.co.uk/a6476/milestone-chart-one-to-six-months
Your pediatrician is still inept for not explaining this to you properly!
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Yes, when my son was about five or six months, his dad would put his hands in son’s armpits and hold son upright, as if son was standing. Baby son found this very entertaining. We have a wonderful photo of both of them laughing in delight.
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Yes, this is what the doctor did and expected Klara to put her feet flat against the surface but Klara doesn’t know how to do that, which the doctor found strange. She holds her head perfectly in that position but she doesn’t yet know what to do with her feet.
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