My baby won’t crawl!!

Ha - don't stress, seriously!

Paris wouldn't roll, crawl, move, did the same thing when put on her tummy - screamed arched her back, tantrumed, she HATED it with a vengeance. I tried the 'forcing' her into the crawling position, we'd go through conditioning position practice like i had learnt with nannying a disabled girl, I did EVERYTHINg in my possible realm of experience and suggestions. nup, she didn't wanna do it.

She did however learn to sit, and with that she learnt to figure things out - she'd play with her toys and knew how to work all the levers, learnt to build towers - we'd sit and read, sit and build with blocks. I still encouraged the movement, but worked on the other stuff in the time we had. As a result i have one very onto it, talkative young lady who fair enough couldn't walk at age 1 - but my god could she talk!

She learnt to bum shuffle at 12 mths, and got super super fast and efficient at that - plus it meant she had hands free to hold things, unlike crawlers - so of course she wouldn't crawl when she had a more "efficient" way of moving.

I would say not to help her walk around, but if she pulls to standing and cruises around the furniture, then be happy. Instead of teaching her to crawl - teach her how to fall safely so she puts her hands out, teach her how to get down again etc. once she is a bit older you can play crawling games like chase around the house - pretending to be animals - and she'll go back and learn that step which is what we did with Paris, we also worked on playing games that taught her to roll once she was about 16 mths too. (ie, 10 in the bed and the little one said roll over.. and we'd help her roll over etc, she learnt really quick)

don't stress, she will get there. enjoy the fact that mostly you'll still be albe to leave the room and know she'll be in the same place when you get back.

Babyg you will proberly find a few posts where i was worried when kylah was 10months and not crawling. Im the same as Lulu, our girls were both born in August and are nearly 1, Kylah doesnt crawl, walk, furniture shuffle nothing. But she is happy and healthy and finds her own way to get to things.. by pushing herself backwards and bum shuffling a tiny bit.. Dont worry chick, there are plenty of babies like yours around!! I still worry i know but iv learned to not get upset by it .

mum2paris wrote: Instead of teaching her to crawl - teach her how to fall safely so she puts her hands out, teach her how to get down again etc.

Oh, and yes - she has already taught herself 'safe-falling' techniques. She will confidently put her hands down and land on her bum most times.

Thanks a lot girls!

I'd say she's 'vocal' rather than getting words through really clear DJ. Sounds like A actually 'says' more than C, but C just 'talks' as such, constantly!

She does say dad (and all its variants) and teddy very clearly and has a good go at (clear enough for me to understand) - hello, love you, yum, boo, moo, dog, and duck. Besides these, she just blabs away in her own little language all day.

As does your sweet Anyssa

Spencer still only commando crawls and has only been up on hands and knees and pulling himself up for the last couple of weeks.

We saw a paed for his lack of movement (he still wasn't even sitting at 8.5months) and they were totally unconcerned (my gp was being precautious cos Spencer has an eye condition which he though might be affecting his balance etc). He was 10.5 months when we saw that paed and had just started commando crawling very slowly. They said that on average he was behind with his gross motor movements but that normally they just suddenly catch up.
All they did was check that everything else was ok (fine motor movements, speech and muscle tone) and that was it, nothing else needed.

I'm not a fan of plunket, they tend to have a one size fits all approach to development and parenting which just doens't work.