Lachlan has finally decided that he would like to give crawling a go! Of course many babies like to crawl forwards as they try to obtain something within their reach, not my little man. He has decided that he prefers to go backwards! He looks like a little inch worm as he gets on his knees and pushes back on his hands. Our little caterpillar likes to back track it until an obstacle stops him; such as the wall or until he gets stuck under the couch.
If you have a little backwards inch worm of your own, you can encourage him to crawl forward with these tips:
1) Place an object of interest just out of his reach to encourage him to reach forward, after all, reaching is the precursor to crawling!2) With your bub on his tummy, sit behind him with your hands on the bottoms of his feet, like a 'kick-off' board. As bub begins to reach forward for a toy, allow him to push-off of your hands. Your hands will give him some traction. Babies tend to naturally move there legs in a breast-stroke or 'frog-like' swim. if he happens to push off of your hands and move forward a bit to grab a toy, he will be most likely to do it again.
I've been doing these exercises with Lachlan and he gets so excited when he pushes off my hands. He generally just needs a few pushes and then he begins to move like a frog as quickly as he can, trying to heave his body forward. When it fails, he metamorphoses back to an inch worm and before you know it I have to rescue him from the dust bunnies that live under our couch!
Naomi began crawling when I put a camera far away and since she wanted to touch it, she crawled very fast to get it, since then she will do it naturally :-) A good book is Itsy bitsy yoga, it is great for babies!!!!It has excersises to help babies to sit, crawl, stand up and walk.
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Geraldine
I love Itsy Bitsy Yoga! You are right, it is wonderful book. I do the digestion poses with Lachlan daily. It is one a highly recommend to all my clients :-)
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