When my baby starts crawling?

Every parent eagerly waits for their baby to start crawling. Crawling is a very good exercise for your baby’s physical development. It is heart touchy experience for all the parents to see their little one crawling. However at the beginning you might have to push your baby but after some time he can manage it by himself. Crawling is a big achievement for babies as they have taken their first move towards independent mobility.

When your baby crawl, his self-esteem will increased as he is boosted up with positivity to accomplish his journey from point A to point B. Your baby will come across various exciting discoveries during his crawling period. Slowly he starts practicing much tougher movements and learns standing with support, walking and at last running. It is good to have carpet at home because it gives little rest to your baby soft knees due to hard floor. 

When will a baby start crawling?

Generally babies start crawling between 6 to 10 months. However some babies skip the crawling stage completely and directly moved into stage of standing with support, walking and running. You

can encourage your baby for crawling by supervising him to tummy time. Tummy time helps your baby to lift his head and move to look around. This exercise will help your baby to gain strength in his arms, shoulders, neck and core. When a baby kicks his feet through his tummy, it helps in strengthening his hips and legs. You can make your baby ready for crawl by doing various interesting exercises. For example- You can keep your baby’s favourite toy just out of his reach or you can lie down just in front of him and grab his attention and play with him. 

What happens to baby’s development when crawl?

Crawling is a job in which your baby needs physical strength to perform it. Your baby has to use both his mind and body to crawl. Hence it is very important that your baby’s arms, shoulders, neck, back and core are quite strong to support his body weight so that he can maintain balance while crawling. The vision of your baby also plays vital role in crawling. The babies use their binocular vision while crawling which means they make use of their both eyes together to focus on anything while crawling. The mental muscles of your baby also do workout while crawling. The babies also develop navigation and memorizing abilities during crawling period.

Various crawling patterns 

Ø Classic cross crawl 

In this crawling style your baby stand at first on his palm of one hand and knee of opposite leg then alternate to move forward. The alternate usage of arms is sitting up neural pathway to work effectively for moving forward.

Ø Crab crawl 

When a baby crawls in backward or sideways movement, it is known as crab style crawling movement. Crab crawling phase is where in babies crawl until they learn forward movement.

Ø Bear crawl 

This is same as classic crawl style, there is only one difference. The baby keeps his limbs and legs straight which looks like bear. Bear crawling style needs great strength in arms and legs, hence the chances are great that your baby will stand up on his legs quite early.

Ø Bottom scoot

In bottom scoot crawling style a baby sit down on his rear and make use of his limbs to move forward. Many babies crawl in bottom scoot style.

Ø Lopsided crawl movement

If your baby is little stronger on one side as compared to other side (suppose he is strong on right side) then he may crawl little lopsided towards right side while crawling. 

Ø Commando or belly crawl movement 

In this crawling style the baby tries to move forwards but he take support by keeping his belly on surface. In this way he is improving his core strength to lift his belly and slowly will be able to crawl in classic cross way.

Ø One handed crawl movement

There are some babies who do not get interested in moving but still they want to do few things by their own. These kinds of babies develop their own crawling style as per their adjustment known as one-handed crawl. They will start crawling with one arm open and other arm use to grip whatever object they can’t bring by them to leave behind. 

Ø Rolling crawl

When a baby reaches at his desires destination through rolling instead of using his limbs and legs, it is known as rolling crawl movement. The baby may move quite fast through rolling crawl.