On all fours...then regressing

pokeybride

My son is almost 9 months (about 7 months, adjusted). Last weekend, he was getting on all fours and rocking quite a bit. Over the past several days, he has stopped doing it completely. Even when I try to put his knees under him, he collapses immediately. I know he might not be ready to crawl, but I'm concerned because he was doing more and seems to have regressed this week. Has anyone experienced something similar?

Thanks!!

vanfox

Yep, DS has been going back and forth between rocking and not for awhile now. Every time he comes back to it, he's a bit more mobile, but he's still not crawling reliably, and the last time he stopped (earlier this week), he started babbling mamama and dadada and bababa, which he hadn't been doing at all before. I think he's just slowly working up to crawling.

ams8099

Has he learned any other new skills? Sometimes they "forget" a skill when they learn a new one. 

My girls rolled over at about 3 months and then didn't do it again for a while. There were other things that they were interested in doing. 

I wouldn't worry right now. I know a lot of babies that never really crawled and went right to walking. 

LynsiBHM

ams8099:

Has he learned any other new skills? Sometimes they "forget" a skill when they learn a new one. 

My girls rolled over at about 3 months and then didn't do it again for a while. There were other things that they were interested in doing. 

I wouldn't worry right now. I know a lot of babies that never really crawled and went right to walking. 

exactly what I was going to say!  P isn't crawling yet, but the rolling thing scared me! He rolled multiple times over about 2-3 days then just stopped completely for a week or more.  Our pedi mentioned the thing about new skills. I'm not sure of the specific skill that set him back, but he did get back to rolling. I think it's pretty common.