What to do if your child can't crawl

It takes time for a child to evolve from lying on their stomach, to sitting, to crawling and walking. When a child begins to learn to crawl after six months, it is important to note that some children do not crawl and learn to walk first. Most of the time, babies cannot crawl because parents do not give them timely training. Parents can provide timely assistance to make their children fall in love with crawling.

What to do if your baby can't crawl

Most babies learn to crawl between 6 and 10 months. However, your baby may also adopt other activities during this period, such as: moving on the bottom (one hand behind the body, one foot in front of the body, and moving the bottom around), crawling on the belly, or rolling over. Some babies skip the crawling stage entirely and go straight to learning to stand, stand, and walk. Therefore, you don’t have to worry about your baby’s specific way of moving, because no matter what method your baby uses, the most important thing is that the child can move.

1. Provide more opportunities: When the baby is three or four months old, if you always put the baby in the stroller, the baby will hardly have the opportunity to crawl actively.

2. Imitate crawling: Some babies cannot crawl, probably because they don’t know how to do it. Babies have a strong ability to imitate, so you can find a child who can crawl to play with them. Put the two babies together and encourage them to crawl. When the baby sees other children crawling, he will imitate them and quickly learn to crawl.

3. Appropriate assistance: When some babies cannot crawl, parents need to help a little! The biggest problem for babies is how to coordinate the movements of their limbs when crawling. They often can take care of their hands but not their feet. At this time, parents can stand behind the baby, put both palms on the soles of the baby's feet, push one of the baby's feet, and when he crawls forward a little, push the other foot. This way, help him through the crawling stage.

When some babies crawl, one side of the body is weak and they need to use the other leg to drag themselves forward, and they also have other delayed motor development. Mothers should be careful. It is best to go to the hospital for a check-up to rule out neurological developmental disorders and some brain damage.

What to do if your baby doesn't like to crawl

1. Create a good environment: Choose a spacious and safe place as your baby's small play area, place your baby on his or her stomach on the ground, and place a toy your baby likes about 150 cm in front of him or her. Toys can attract baby's attention and encourage him to move his body forward. When the baby crawls over, the mother can push her legs back little by little to allow the baby to crawl forward more. When the baby reaches the toy, let him play with it for a while and praise him to enhance his sense of accomplishment.

2. Increase the fun of crawling: If you have empty cardboard boxes used to hold refrigerators or washing machines at home, you can make them into crawling toys for your baby. Place the cardboard box horizontally on the ground, put the baby on one end of the box, and then the mother goes to the other side, looks at the baby from the box, and encourages him (her) to "dig into the cave" and crawl to the mother's side. When the baby gets up in the morning, the mother can also let the baby crawl from one end of the quilt to the other.