Is your baby clapping and or waving?
My baby did a lot of things ahead of time like roll , crawl and walk, saying words etc but still hadnt clapped or waved.
When I ask him to clap he knows what it means and grabs my two hands and claps them together as I model it to him all the time on my hands and his hands.
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I clap and wave at my little one all the time to encourage her, I nearly cried last week when I was leaving for work and she waved back it was the first time she done it. She claps all the time I'm quite dramatic about it when I do it and she finds it hilarious and copies x

Mine just started signing more a few days ago. She has no idea what it means but it’s her new favorite thing

My daughter can clap but she still prefers to clap my hands instead of hers but if I say Yaay she claps , as for wave she doesn’t wave like how you’d say hi , her hi and bye is her opening and closing her hands , I’m trying to teach her how to wave because I want her to learn how to sign milk and not get confused with the two. She’s very good at signing tho other stuff though cause we sign at home and also daycare.

My bub is also fully walking independently, saying a couple words, points, puts hands up for up etc. but also isn’t really clapping or waving even with me modeling them constantly. Doesn’t clap at all, never has, but does bang toys together. And just in the last day or 2 started moving his hand in a wave motion - definitely not with a “hi” or “bye”meaning but it’s progress.
Anyways long story short, I just spoke to my pediatrician again this week and she said she’s not at all concerned since he’s meeting all his other milestones including communicating other ways (a couple words, pointing, hands up for up, etc). So a reminder that development is about the big picture and not looking at any one specific thing 🤍

We've only just got clapping and waving. She wasn't doing either up until about 2 weeks ago. But, and this is random but she loves in the night garden. There's a little clip on there with Makka Pakka and the first time she did it was watching Makka Pakka and copying him/her

my little one still doesnt really wave or clap but he is walking and ahead of all of his other milestones, he does a high five instead lol