Should he be crawling

Hi and welcome!

Don't stress! It must be hard having a cousin so close in age that your boy will be being constantly compared to, but DON'T LISTEN to your future MIL. Pushing himself backwards on his tummy is one of the first signs, he will do it in his own time - which might not be for a few months yet.

I'm sure it would be useful, if you haven't already, to join in on your 'born in' monthly thread - that way you'll be able to see the range of activity with babies of a similar age. Some bubbas just prefer to sit back and take the world in for a while before they're in a hurry to get anywhere - trust me, you should cherish that, cos there's no stopping them once they're off! I often wish my boy was like that! He was crawling at around 6 months, but as far as I can tell that's on the early side, in our July group there are a few babies not crawling yet, and they're 8-9 months old. So don't panic! And when your future MIL makes a comment about it, just smile and say you're happy for him to be staying where you leave him for a little while longer, and you feel sorry for his cousin's mum having to chase around after her baby already!

Yes, I have one of those July 08 non-moving 8 month old lumps!

Don't stress - he will do it in his own time, and in the meantime cherish not having to be on the constant lookout for a baby into everything.

Don't forget also - crawling is not a developmental milestone as sitting and walking are, and some babies never crawl and go straight to walking (not that your boy necessarily will! )

As above - dont stress! My son is 10 months old and he's only just started crawling. He did it all of a sudden without showing any signs of wanting to. All babies develop differently - I personally didnt crawl at all when I was a baby, I just sat and stood!

One of my nephews didn't start crawling until just over 12 months old. My girls started at 8 months and I felt that was really early. I wouldn't panic all kids are different.

my girl didnt start crawling till she was about 10 months old.

as everyone else has said babies do things in their own time.;

not like your son is 18 months and not moving :)

Mine didn't crawl to 10 months and walked at 13 months. This was pretty typical for all the babies in my coffee grp. Definitely nothing to stress about!!

YAY i like this thread! Ava is 7 months old on saturday and she isn't moving AT ALL on her tummy - forwards, backwards, sideways - NOTHING!!!! She prefers to sit or lie on her back and blabber away!

I know how you feel. A baby in my coffee group is crawling already and he is 2 weeks older than Ava - but his mum pushes him to do things like there is no tomorrow and treats him like an adult, which i personally wouldn't do. Plus Ava has just started rolling in the last 3 weeks or so and she will only roll one way and a couple of the other babies in the coffee group started rolling at 3 months!

Oh, and my brother didnt crawl at all and didnt walk till he was almost 15 months old and he is completely normal (well, as normal as brothers can be!!)

MIL's eh!

jack didn't crawl until not long after his 1st birthday....he just rolled anywhere he wanted to go. then he didn't walk until 18mths.

C crawled at 6 .5 months , walked at 9months, talked in 3 word sentences before her 1st birthday .

And you know what ? i long for the days when she would just lie there...all this anxiety for them to walk and talk , and then they do and you just wish they'd sit down and shutup

Agreed.
now Thomas can crawl i'm constantly up and down stopping him from going places I dont want him to be. It wouldnt be so bad if he knew when I said 'no dont go there' or 'come back here.' lol.