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When did your baby clap? Wave? High five?

post reply Forum Index » Infants, Toddlers, & Preschoolers 1 2 3 4 5 6 ► Go Go to page... 12/28/2010 16:46 Subject: When did your baby clap? Wave? High five? quote Anonymous

People seem to expect my baby to do these things ... not sure if it is because babies his age usually do, because he is big and looks older, or because they just forget ... he doesn't do any of them.

report 12/28/2010 16:57 Subject: Re:When did your baby clap? Wave? High five? quote Anonymous

My baby clapped and high fived pretty reliably starting around 11mos/1 year. I'm still waiting for a wave and he's 13.5 mos.

report 12/28/2010 16:58 Subject: Re:When did your baby clap? Wave? High five? quote Anonymous

Mine is nine months. She waved at 5.5 months, clapped at 7 months and hasn't high fived yet.

report 12/28/2010 17:09 Subject: When did your baby clap? Wave? High five? quote Anonymous

My 9 month old does all that...he even yells "yeah" when he high fives.

report 12/28/2010 17:22 Subject: When did your baby clap? Wave? High five? quote Anonymous

Don't sweat it. There's a wide range of normal for these things. DD waved at 7 months and clapped at 9 months. Not sure when she caught on to the high five.

report 12/28/2010 17:30 Subject: When did your baby clap? Wave? High five? quote Anonymous

My DD clapped around 9 months but refused to wave until around 13 months (and initially she only waved her hand toward herself rather than toward the person she was greeting). She started high-fiving around 18 months. She's a late bloomer but she seems to get to everything eventually.

report 12/28/2010 18:50 Subject: Re:When did your baby clap? Wave? High five? quote Anonymous

Anonymous wrote:Mine is nine months. She waved at 5.5 months, clapped at 7 months and hasn't high fived yet. Hmm...see I interpret the "when did she wave" question as - when did the baby wave and correctly associate the action of waving with saying hello or goodbye. I think that happens much later than 5.5 months. Maybe I'm misreading that one though.

report 12/28/2010 18:57 Subject: When did your baby clap? Wave? High five? quote Anonymous

My DD is 13 months and caught on to the high five first (mainly because she loved how excited we got when she did it). She has just started to wave on a consistent basis and knows that it happens when she hears "hi" or "bye bye" (she could wave before now, however, I am not sure she knew what she was doing). She started clapping around 10 months.

report 12/28/2010 19:14 Subject: Re:When did your baby clap? Wave? High five? quote Anonymous

Clapping at about 9mos. Waving "sort of" around 10mos, but not consistently so I'm not sure it counts yet. High 5 we're still working on also at 10mos.

report 12/28/2010 19:24 Subject: When did your baby clap? Wave? High five? quote Anonymous

Waving around 6 months or so. Clapping around 8-9 months. High 5s around 10 months to a year. I think young babies can associate waving with hello/goodbye if it's used consistently that way. Afterall, infants can have their first signs around 5-8 months. Oldest had his first signs at 5 months (milk and hello/goodbye), youngest at 8 months.

report 12/28/2010 19:59 Subject: Re:When did your baby clap? Wave? High five? quote Anonymous

OP here. DS is 8.5 months so I feel better knowing lots of babies aren't doing these things at this age. He looks older so maybe that is part of why people seem to expect these behaviors from him ...

report 12/28/2010 20:19 Subject: Re:When did your baby clap? Wave? High five? quote Anonymous

Anonymous wrote:OP here. DS is 8.5 months so I feel better knowing lots of babies aren't doing these things at this age. He looks older so maybe that is part of why people seem to expect these behaviors from him ... I think people also forget how old their babies were when they did some of these things. FWIW, my DS is 11 months. I think he clapped around 8 or 9 months. He's waved a few times and it may or may not have been because we were leaving. No high fiving yet, but we've never really done it with him. He started pointing about a week ago (although he doesn't extend his finger, just sort of extends his arm and turns his palm out and upside down). He hasn't clapped a lot lately, but I think he's been concentrating on his new skill - shaking his head "no."

report 12/28/2010 21:00 Subject: Re:When did your baby clap? Wave? High five? quote Anonymous

Clapped and waved hello ~10, 11 months. High five only around 15 months.

report 12/29/2010 08:16 Subject: Re:When did your baby clap? Wave? High five? quote Anonymous

clapped at 6 months. high fived at 7 (b/c daycare taught him), still hasn't waved (12 months) except sometime to imitate me (but not hello. goodbye).

report 12/29/2010 09:55 Subject: When did your baby clap? Wave? High five? quote Anonymous

We're just now at 14-15 months being able to clap, high five, and blow kisses reliably. He'd practice some around 13ish months when he thought we weren't looking!

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