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Babies that bum shuffled!

Orangegnome

This might seem really weird but I have read a couple of articles suggesting babies who bum shuffle instead of crawling are more likely to be autistic. I bum shuffled and didn’t walk particularly early. Just wondering if anyone else didn’t same. (by the way it’s so cute when a baby bum shuffles!) 

  • in reply to TheCatWoman
    TheCatWoman said:
    I think birth order plays a part in how babies develop too,

    So much more than just the early development too - I was the third and by that time my parents were really busy running their own business, dealing with 2 other kids plus a dog and for the late arriver (me) getting attention was a luxury.

  • in reply to Iain

    I read the article. I’m trying to prepare for my assessment and gather as much information as possible. Unfortunately I can’t get much from my parents about my early years, and I’m not sure they would remember such things. But I do know I was a bum shuffler, I had terrible milk intolerance, and I didn’t walk very early. I also had terrible ‘tantrums’ and crying episodes, that I haven’t really grown out of Grimacing

  • My ADHDer child crawled, my autistic child never crawled, but bum-shuffled until starting to walk. The advantage of bum-shuffling being that locomotion and holding things are not mutually exclusive, as they tend to be with crawling.

  • I bum shuffled before I learned to crawl, I thnk lots of babies bum shuffle.

    I think birth order plays a part in how babies develop too, first children are more likely to be carried around and spoken too, so they learn speech faster than they learn walking, second babies want to follow the parents and elder sibling around, so they often learn to move, crawl or walk faster than they do to speak.

  • From what I have read the slow development of motor skills is one indicator (a very vague one) but with around 80% of babies being slow to take up crawling then it is an unreliable one.

    There seems to be a wider range of issues that need to be considered to make it more or a red flag such as eye contact, gesturing and responding to their names.

    There is a good article on the subject here:

    https://www.healthline.com/health/autism/signs-of-autism-in-babies