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Walker for a 11 month old
Is using walker for a baby bad ? Pls suggest ..what are it's disadvantages? Does it hinder independent walking ?
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Normally shud be double of birthweight approx by this age .
U may download iap growth charts from playstore and plot his or her weight their it shud be ,at purple line of graph ,50 th centile ,which is ok or normal .very easy .
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You can use it...but becareful that baby wont get injury while roaming in walker....
Occassionally it gives false impression to baby that he or she wont fall while walking without it...
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Dr. S. T. Pushpam
Pediatrician
16 yrs exp
Bangalore
Hi,
How old is your baby?
Use walker only when child holds and tries to stand and not before that.
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