“Crawling is the master milestone and the
one milestone that is skipped most often”
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Then voila, baby can feed without
reflux; he can keep his head up and
turn it to look at dad; he can do
baby push-ups and sit-ups; he can
roll over and push himself up into
a sitting position; he can reach for a
toy without toppling over; and
he will instinctively find himself
on all fours, rocking to and fro
while preparing for the big
milestone – crawling!
Oh, the freedom of crawling
is none less than a learner’s
licence at the age of 17. All of a
sudden a baby’s world expands
and his new position provides
a whole new perspective of the
world around him. Think about how
different a table looks when lying
down compared to seeing it when
on all fours. What a world to explore
while engaging in the thousands of
movement repetitions required to
lay down the base wiring for
muscle tone and creating
connections between the left and
right sides of the brain.
Crawling is much harder work for a
baby than walking because a baby
needs to coordinate 6 points of
contact – 2 hands, 2 knees and 2
feet – while learning how to adjust
to different surfaces when moving
from tiles to carpets to wooden
flooring, and navigating many
obst