What age did your baby Crawl ?

Question

What age did your baby Crawl ?

Answer 1

18 months.  She was walking at 9 months.  I guess she didn't have a need for it until one day she thought she might try it.

Answer 2

my son started crawling on the day of his 7 month birthday

Answer 3

My kids crawled at 8 months, 12 months and 13 months.  Buy a tunnel.  I wouldn't put much stock in those that say not crawling isn't a developmental milestone.  More than likely any child that skips this all too important stage will end up getting services in school for fine motor delay.  Any occupational therapist will disagree that crawling isn't essential.  Please look at Dr. Jean Ayers and Carol Kranowicz work.  If the foundation for basic skills are not achieved by age 3, it will be a struggle to acquire them afterwards.  Developmental windows of achieving milestones close so early, that is why there is such a push for early intervention and why it is free.  Call early intervention, its free.  I encourage everyone with children to have their child assessed and if they don't qualify for services to wait a few months and have them assessed again.  My kids began to receive early intervention at 4 months, 8 months, and 25 months.

Answer 4

Hi there,

Babies all adjust to crawling and walking at different ages. My son did not crawl at all he just got up 3 weeks before his 1st birthday and started walking.

So there is not a certain age for them to start crawling

Answer 5

Hi there,

Not sure if this is exactly the answer to your question, but you may like to know that crawling is not a developmental milestone (like the all-important rolling back to front, front to back, first word, first step, etc).  Some children go right to pulling themselves up and walking, but some do crawl.  Each child figures out for themselves how to get from point A to point B.

Be sure to know that crawling isn't a fine motor skill.  As someone that works on a team of pediatric speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, and physical therapists, we diagnose children with developmental delays and provide early intervention treatments.  You do not need to worry about your child if he/she is not crawling.  It simply is not considered a developmental milestone on any formal developmental inventory we ask parents to complete, because it is not a skill all children perform (which is the definition of a true milestone, like rolling, walking, talking, etc).

If a child was referred for simply not crawling to our early intervention unit, we would reassure you that we need to wait until the child is clearly not walking.  It may be “free” for evaluations, but that certainly does not mean you need one.  You also need to know when speaking to a medical professional that crawling is a gross motor skill , not a fine motor skill as a previous contributor stated.  And it isn't the foundation for walking, as some have been misinformed.

Balance and coordination are the requirements for standing erect and walking and that is why children walk and plop in the beginning so much, they are practicing a skill that they will refine.  Crawling has nothing to do with that.  Pulling up and standing and creeping while holding on are more important skills and typically what children prefer to do and why so many skip crawling.  These children are considered developmentally on target and appropriate.  We don’t stay on the ground, ergo, we don’t need to learn on the ground.  That is not how the brain “prepares” itself for walking.

Please note that the only children that do not walk are not those who didn’t crawl, but rather, it is the children that have a disease/disorder present at birth (such as cerebral palsy, etc) or sustain an injury after birth.

Please always ask a specialist with an advanced degree, one who is qualified to speak on the matter where you have concerns.  Opinions, even with a “title”, can be misleading and scary when they are not given with specific information about your child.  Broad, sweeping, generalizations are rarely to be trusted as a rule of thumb.  When making any inquiries about your child and their health, always start with your pediatrician and realize just how important it is to seek out professionals in your community who are wise and knowledgeable and trained with the facts.  If anything was concerning to your pediatrician, I can assure you, you would already know.

As a developmental specialist and more importantly as a mommy myself, just know every baby is different and you want to see that all areas of development are progressing fairly equally and steadily.  As any milestone approaches, don't stress if it seems your child isn't there yet.  Some children prefer crawling, scooting, or "creeping", etc.  And none of these are developmental milestones.  Just rolling over and walking are, period.

Your child may either do it or not, preferring to be held instead, or will do it when they are ready.  Please don't let other people frighten you.  

I hope that helps!  Communicate with your pediatrician and try, even if they are a busy office, to see the same pediatrician each visit.  Continuity in providers is key to an MD knowing your child and what is "normal" for that child.

Good luck to you!

Answer 6

my baby crawled wen it was in my tummmy!

yummy yummy! in my tummy!