Six-Month-Old Toddler Starts Walking

A baby has astounded his mum and childcare experts by walking at the age of just six months.

Fast learner Reuben Robinson got to his feet and began tottering around the lounge at his home last month.



As the average child only starts walking at about 12 months, Reuben's precocity has left doctors as surprised as well as his mother ,Connie Robinson and her husband John.

Mrs Robinson, whose daughter Yazmin, now three, started walking at nine months, said Reuben was a star turn at their mother and baby group. "There was a crowd around him at play group. They were saying, 'Isn't he a little bit too tiny to be standing up on his own?'

"When I told them that he could walk, they all gathered round to watch. He's become a bit of a little star."

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