How do you teach them to crawl?

californiafrog7905

Knowing, of course, that not all babies do crawl....finally got DD to learn how to roll from tummy to back, so now whenever I do tummy time it's over in about 2 seconds!  She doesn't seem interested in bearing weight on her arms and knees, either, so how is she going to experiment with rocking back and forth and eventually crawling?  She leans faaaaaar forward to get at things in front of her, and sometimes falls on her face, but then rolls right over on her back again.  Any ideas?

BartsGirl

My DS just started trying to get up on his knees...his first attempts at motion looked kind of like he was swimming.  I just let him go most of the time!

anna7602

DD started backward crawling sometime in December and forward crawling last week. We didn't do anything to "teach" her, but she spends lots and lots of time on the floor and very little time in jumparoos, exersaucers, etc. I think all babies get crawling sooner or later.

mjcleve

DS has been rolling all over like a mad man since he was 5 months.  Now he's getting up on all fours all the time and rocking back and forth about ready to crawl.  I don't really think I did anything to teach him that besides put him on the floor a lot.

nosoup4u

She'll figure it out. DS had a more than a month of leaning way over for things, and then doing this funny scooting thing (He'd sort of go hip-over-hip while sitting to get to things) before he figured out crawling - backwards. And then it took another month to get forwards down. I agree with pp - do lots and lots of floortime.

The one thing that helped with my DS was that everytime we put him down we'd put him on his tummy. He would roll over, but eventually he would get himself in that position. hth

abergale

My DD still doesn't crawl. A lot of people suggest that you try to put them on all fours. That still didn't work for us. We just make sure that we give her tons of floor time and I think she will be there soon!

MrsGeek

We gave her a lot of floor time.  There was always something for her to "go towards" as well.  We have a cat and she was always trying to get to the cat.

Bride2bMO

Don't do it! Enjoy your sanity! :P

 Kidding. I didn't do anything to my son. He was a fairly early, or at least average, crawler and I was even awful about tummy time.

They'll do it when they're ready (if at all) then all hell breaks loose. Have fun!

EEYORE119

i just him to his 6 month appointment and i swear he listens to the pedi when she says things he should start doing . because every visit came a new milestone right after