My daughter had her third boy on Mother’s Day, 2009. T.J. is showing signs of a desire to crawl. Soon he will be wanting to pull himself up and walk. His older siblings walked around 13 months. In a study conducted with Lund University in Sweden, we learn that humans need a full year before walking. As you know, a newborn foal walks directly after birth. The Lund Group informs us that in their study they use conception and not birth as the starting point of motor development in their scientific study. Humans have more brain cells and bigger brains than most land mammals, but “with respect to walking, brain development appears to be similar for us and other mammals.“ Comparing 24 species, the group translated motor development related to the species. “Regardless of differences in various species’ brain size, body size, and gestation time, the comparison shows that young from all species start walking at the same relative time point in brain development,” no matter if they are a baby colt, hedgehog, or human.
So T.J. has a few months to wait and that is okay.
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