7 Month Old Not Sitting up Yet

I would say call your doctor if your gut instinct is that something may not be "right" so to speak, but as you stated you shouldn't compare your kids to one another, but as moms what else do we have to compare them to? :) I onlyhave two kids, and they couldn't be more different. My son (my oldest was more one to try and try and try until he got it. My ddaughter on the other hand, was more one that just when you were about to really get concerned with things, she'd go ahead and do the skill like she'd been doing it forever. I want to say she was somewhere in the 7 to 8 month range before she sat unassisted. Ahe really didn't crawl, just scooched on her bottom or rolled to everything she wanted, crawled a little bit by around 11 months, but decided she liked pulling herself up on things better and got around that way instead, and didn't walk until she was almost 14 months, and hasn't stopped since LOL. She was also much different verbally than her brother. My son was saying mama and dada, baba, etc. by 7 months, and was stringing two words together by 15 months, and using simple sentences by around 18 months. Well, my daughter really didn't hardly day anything remotely language sounding like until 1 years old, then a word would come here and there filled in with babble sounds, more like your tpical 7-9 month old. This is pretty much how she carried on for most of that year. Words, pointing and babble, I was definately a bit concerned by her two year visit, as was her doctor who dsaid if we did not see some major change in the next few months we really needed to look into things more. I don't think it was a month after she turned two (she's 29 months today) that out came sentence after sentence that pretty much anyone could understand. She speaks in in 6 and 7 word sentences on a regular basis, sense of humor has developed, if she doesn't know the name for something she asks, etc. So I guess my point is here (sorry to ramble) that some kids are more cerebral, and absorb everything first before taking action, and some take action first, and figure the rest out as they go along...kind of like some adults :) Go with your gut and you can't go wrong.

I think you should call your doctor if you are concerned. It does not matter if your appointemnt is next week or in three months, that is what they are there for! I think you will feel better to hear a doctor's opinion. We never wait for the "next" appointment to call about anything!

Maybe just a phone call to the doctors office will give you the guidance you need. They will at least tell you if you should bring her in.

I'm would never give my opinion on what is considered normal or not because I really don't know. But, I thought the only thing you mentioned that caught my attention was not putting an weight on her legs (but, again, I don't know if that is normal or not).

good luck

You could start with your doctor, but I often find that they poo-poo a mom's gut instincts. You could check into Easter Seal's - they do OT/PT/speech evals for kids under 3.