An interesting article regarding concerns about Jolly Jumpers and Baby Walkers.
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With a new 6 month old in the family we ‘rediscovered’ this topic. The newish mum, a nurse who has researched most everything, had missed it.
The sale of baby walkers was banned in Canada in 2004 but remain available across the world.
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We never had a baby walker. 30+ years back there were some horror stories of what could go wrong - Choice archives?
Children get on fine without one. Just clean the floor of dropped food, crumbs, mud, grass, cat hair and … The first born was a little slow to go it alone, at 12+ months. Too busy laughing all the time. Slow as in - other parents judgement of how smart their kid was learning to walk at 7-8 months. Not really a sign of anything.
There is a normal, but it is very broad 8-18 months.
The next two were not so slow, possibly encouraged by observation of their older brother and the need to keep up.
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We as parents were the baby walkers, little fingers grasping large hands seemed to be the way forward 
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