Milestones

I know I shouldn't be worried about this (they are different babies with different developments), but how close together did your babies reach milestones? For example, my DS has been smiling for about 2 weeks now, but my DD hasn't done it at all (not even in her sleep). Also, DS has been cooing, and she hasn't. She seems to be looking around more and making more eye contact, so I guess that is good. I guess I shouldn't compare them, but it is so hard not to when you see them both everyday...

 

When it comes to smiling and babbling, both DS and DD have been doing that at the same time.

but DS is starting to roll over more, he can almost do it just needs to learn to pull his arm through. DD just looks at him and is content with not doing it right now. It's kinda funny. DS likes to stand with assistance. DD just like to sit and lay and she's happy with going at her own pace.

she'll catch up.

 

I'm really glad you posted this!

My DS usually hits a milestone about a week before DD. We started to feel a little bad for DD--with her bro always hitting things first, smiling, cooing, rolling over. But now she's doing a few things first, like playing with her feet and lifting her head and shoulders up when she's lying down (we call them her baby crunches :lol.

I don't think a couple weeks off is something to be too worried about, but you could always talk to your dr. next time you go.

 

QUOTE(joannabug @ Apr 8 2008, 09:23 AM) [snapback]711367[/snapback]
I'm really glad you posted this!

My DS usually hits a milestone about a week before DD. We started to feel a little bad for DD--with her bro always hitting things first, smiling, cooing, rolling over. But now she's doing a few things first, like playing with her feet and lifting her head and shoulders up when she's lying down (we call them her baby crunches :lol.

I don't think a couple weeks off is something to be too worried about, but you could always talk to your dr. next time you go.



Oh yes, that's what DD has done first is play with her feet. she will stick her foot in her mouth. So funny!

 

We've all been there... but please please please don't compare your kids! You will just drive yourself bonkers. Sure, they're twins (maybe even identical) but they're two very different little people who will develop at different rates. And just when you think you have them figured out, they'll change on you.

I have identical girls and here's their pattern:

B rolled at three months, A not until five month.
A got her first two teeth at 7 months, B got hers at 8 months.
A currently has six teeth, B only has three
B started crawling five weeks before A
B smiled earlier than A. She also made more eye contact. A didn't smile much nor did she seem very interative. Then it all changed at 8 months. Now B is shy around people and A can't stop smiling and giggling and wanting to hug us.

 

DS-started cooing and smiling about a week or so before DD
DD-rolls from her back to her stomach (which seems really early to me) and DS just lays there and doesnt even try
DS can lift his head up and props on his arms really well and DD just pulls her head up a little and then it flops back down
DD pulls her legs up together (seems kind of cordinated) and DS kicks and squirms in no orderly fashion
DS will hold a toy and wave it around and DD has no interest in holding anything

They are both doing things but nothing is the same-once one gets it a while later the other does.

I called our doctor because I was concerned about weight differences and the nurse said "do not compare them"...it is so hard because they are both there and it is easy to notice when one isnt doing what the other is and so on.

 

My identical girls are so different. They are 3+ pounds different in weight. My little one was a donor in Twin-To-Twin-Transfusion Syndrome and didn't get as many nutrients in the womb - she didn't have much of a suck reflex when born and needed oxygen (they were born at almost 39 weeks!) Needless to say, she's behind her sister in almost everything, but she always catches up. They are both behind my DS! I'm not worried about it, she seems to get there, just slower!

Jenny

 

My DD has been ahead in most thing. At the beginning they were with in a couple of days of cooing, smiling, rolling over. But My DD crawlied at 6 1/2 mo and my DS still isn't./ She pulled up at 7 mo and he can with some help. She is about to walk and I think she will before my DS crawls. Oh well. My DD has 4 teeth and DS none. DD says more consonant sounds than DS. DS is just more layed back compared to the whirl wind of my DD. Oh well.

 

QUOTE(MommaK @ Apr 8 2008, 12:17 PM) [snapback]711352[/snapback]
I know I shouldn't be worried about this (they are different babies with different developments), but how close together did your babies reach milestones? For example, my DS has been smiling for about 2 weeks now, but my DD hasn't done it at all (not even in her sleep). Also, DS has been cooing, and she hasn't. She seems to be looking around more and making more eye contact, so I guess that is good. I guess I shouldn't compare them, but it is so hard not to when you see them both everyday...


I didn't read all the replies, but I thought I would share our experience from our first months. My DS reached many physical milestones earlier than DD in the beginning. At first I was worried. Then I started to realize that DD was reaching other cognitive milestones earlier than DS. She learned her name first and learned to track me moving across the room.

It never failed that one would do something and then within a week or two the other would do it, but it seems they just don't do it at the same time. Now at just over 5 months DD is starting to roll around more and DS is really into facial expressions. I have to remind myself all the time DON'T COMPARE! But it's hard!!

 

My DD is way ahead of my DS. She has been crawling for almost 3 months and he is still just rocking. It has pretty much always been that way.

When I mentioned it to 3 different Peds I have seen, they all say the same thing.......... girls meet milestones first and to not worry.

I try not to worry, but we are 2 days away from 9 months and he still is not crawling. :-(

 

We were usually a few weeks apart. and the walking was 3 months apart

 

QUOTE(Tammy Fine @ Apr 8 2008, 12:48 PM) [snapback]711555[/snapback]
My DD is way ahead of my DS. She has been crawling for almost 3 months and he is still just rocking. It has pretty much always been that way.

When I mentioned it to 3 different Peds I have seen, they all say the same thing.......... girls meet milestones first and to not worry.

I try not to worry, but we are 2 days away from 9 months and he still is not crawling. :-(



Tammy I would try not to worry. I know the peds say girls meet milestones first, but my girls just started crawling at 10 months and they are just now pulling up on things.

To the OP my girls are identical but they have hit they have hit their milestones pretty close together. (smiling, rolling, sitting up, crawling). Now their teeth have been a different story. Grace has had a tooth for about 3 weeks and Hope still just has a big bump and not a tooth.