Babies: 6 - 9 Months
When should crawling start?
Sorry if this has been covered, but when should crawling start? My son hasn't started yet (only backwards a little) and I'm wondering when other babies typically start.
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Re: When should crawling start?
HOWEVER, by 9 months, she was a professional roller and used that to get around (quickly and with amazing precision). She was doing commando at maybe 11 months.
Some kids never crawl, some crawl at 6 months, some at 15 months...like PP said, I have read that the important thing is that they show incentive to move around and explore (whether rolling, commando, or crawling) by about 9 months -- this is more a cognitive thing than a gross motor thing.
I'd say some sort of getting around between 6 and 10 months. And not all kids actually crawl.
my LO started crawling at 7 months, my friend's kid is 9 months and just started army crawling but not even close to crawling on hands and knees.
Everyone is right, it is different for each baby. Mine was a late roller, started a week after 5 months, then with within 2 weeks he was rollling all over and now at 23 weeks is up on his hands and knees rocking along with going backwards and army crawling so who knows!
My son was an expert crawler at like 6 months. He pulled up and walked around furniture shortly after. He waited until 13 months to walk. My daughter has been army crawling for almost 3 months. She used to get on her knees and rock but doesn't even bother anymore. She's really fast at the army crawl. She can walk around furniture and climb over almost everything, but still not crawling. I'm starting to think she never will (which is kind of annoying because she's getting the belly of all her clothes all dirty LOL). I've had friends who's kids didn't crawl until like 10 months and then they walked shortly after. Pretty much everything is normal.