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Delphine has always been a mellow, easygoing tot. She likes to observe people; she likes to sit and play with her board books, turning the pages; she likes to caress and chew her toys. She’s never been one of those frenetic tots, flailing their legs and arms incessantly from day one, crawling onto and over and under everything. She’s not a screamer, nor is she particularly shy. And she loves to sleep.
But by the time Delphine was closing in on her first birthday, we were starting to worry that the mellowness was masking slowness. She learned to roll over around eight months of age, and promptly used this skill to escape tummy time permanently. Crawling? Not gonna happen when your kid can easily flip from her tum onto her back and lie there, playing contentedly with a toy. Walking? Not gonna happen when your kid can’t get into a sitting position from a lying one, and doesn’t even seem interested in trying.
