December 2011 Moms

How do you define crawling?

There are so many posts about crawling/not crawling...how do you define crawling?

I guess I would define crawling as using arms and legs to move across the floor...no matter what it looks like. 

LO's crawl is quite comical...he'll have his legs sort of bent under his butt, and he'll push himself up with his arms.  Then, he straightens his legs and sort of lunges/flops forward.  Sometimes he face plants into the floor.  :) 

 

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Re: How do you define crawling?

  • imageKeyLime81:

    LO's crawl is quite comical...he'll have his legs sort of bent under his butt, and he'll push himself up with his arms.  Then, he straightens his legs and sort of lunges/flops forward.  Sometimes he face plants into the floor.  :) 

    Sounds like my LO!  We call it the inch worm.  She does it pretty effectively--she can get from one end of the rug to the other, and can turn herself around.  But I don't consider it crawling yet.  I've been wondering if it's what people refer to as "scooting", but it's more like inching/flopping. 

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  • i think it's when their belly is up off the floor & they move their hands & legs to move. otherwise, it's scooting or army crawling. 
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  • My DS did a backwards scooting/crawling for about a week before he went forwards.  At first he would do something similar to your DS, his arms would move like normal crawling but he would "hop" with his legs at the same time.  It was quite funny to watch.  Then he finally learned how to crawl the "normal" way with arms and legs moving independently.  He was around 6 months and a week old.  Sometimes I miss my immobile baby!
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  • I think a lot of people will say their baby is crawling if he is moving from one point to another, despite the method (army crawl, scooting, etc), but I don't think of it as crawling until their belly is off the ground and the alternate left leg/right arm right leg/left arm. Ds went backwards for a bit and was army crawling since about 5 months and could effectively get where he wanted to go, slowly but surely. But I didn't say he was crawling until he was doing it with his belly up and using his limbs correctly.
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    I think a lot of people will say their baby is crawling if he is moving from one point to another, despite the method (army crawl, scooting, etc), but I don't think of it as crawling until their belly is off the ground and the alternate left leg/right arm right leg/left arm. Ds went backwards for a bit and was army crawling since about 5 months and could effectively get where he wanted to go, slowly but surely. But I didn't say he was crawling until he was doing it with his belly up and using his limbs correctly.

    I agree with this. I think they're all versions of crawling, but I didn't say DD was actually crawling until she was crawling with her belly off the ground and alternating arms and legs. 

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  • imagebrowneyedgoil:
    i think it's when their belly is up off the floor & they move their hands & legs to move. otherwise, it's scooting or army crawling. 

    This. My little guy is army crawling and can get on his hands and knees with his belly off the ground but just sits there with no clue what to do next so he'll just drop down and army crawl. If people ask me if he's crawling I tell them no, but he can army crawl and gets where he needs to go. 

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  • I go by the definition that was in my baby development book.  They had normal crawling, bear crawling, and army crawling as examples of crawling so I see army crawling as legitimate form of crawling. 
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  • I consider DS's army crawl to be " real" crawling. I doubt he ever does the traditional crawl since he can move so fast the way he crawls now. 
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  • imagekelsea1031:

    imagelaken256:
    I think a lot of people will say their baby is crawling if he is moving from one point to another, despite the method (army crawl, scooting, etc), but I don't think of it as crawling until their belly is off the ground and the alternate left leg/right arm right leg/left arm. Ds went backwards for a bit and was army crawling since about 5 months and could effectively get where he wanted to go, slowly but surely. But I didn't say he was crawling until he was doing it with his belly up and using his limbs correctly.

    I agree with this. I think they're all versions of crawling, but I didn't say DD was actually crawling until she was crawling with her belly off the ground and alternating arms and legs. 

    I agree with this as well. 

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