Contents:
- Medical Video: Teach Your Baby to Crawl Early
- How to help babies learn to crawl
- Safe tips for babies learning to crawl
- 1. Pay attention to electrical devices at home
- 2. Keep dangerous items out of reach of the baby
- 3. Set boundaries for areas that can be explored
- 4. Keep the house clean
Medical Video: Teach Your Baby to Crawl Early
When you are around 4-6 months old, your little one can start sitting alone. At the age of 6-10 months, your child will begin to crawl to try to take various objects around him by crawling using the stomach or push up position. Crawling is an important phase because this can train the movements of the arms and legs of the child at the same time. When he crawls, you have to stay with your little one. Here are some safe tips for babies to learn to crawl.
How to help babies learn to crawl
You can help your baby crawl by encouraging him to do it tummy time. Tummy time are all activities, from playing to interacting which are done on the prone baby's position. This will stimulate the baby to crawl earlier. You can start putting your little one in your stomach on his stomach. Start with only one or two minutes tummy time,then gradually carry him to get up.
Try to put toys that are funny or interesting, like bright colored toys and have sounds in front of the baby and let them try to reach them. You can also use a small ball to attract the baby's attention to be comfortable when doing it tummy time. This really helps the baby to stimulate the ability to lift his body and move to take the toys that are in front of him.
Once your baby starts to lift his body and wants to crawl, let him crawl on the floor as freely as possible. Babies will be very excited and want to explore. Frequent crawling is good practice.
You can make things fun by creating "obstacles" around the living room. Try using a pillow or cardboard, this will help increase your confidence, speed, and agility.
Safe tips for babies learning to crawl
Parents still have to monitor and maintain the safety of your child while he is learning to crawl. This is because the coordination, balance, and strength of the little one has not been fully developed. So, babies are vulnerable to injury when learning to crawl. Here are some safety tips for babies who are learning to crawl.
1. Pay attention to electrical devices at home
Buy electrical equipment with a short strap so the baby does not pull, reach, or get caught in the cable. Close the socket and keep your baby out of the electric range.
2. Keep dangerous items out of reach of the baby
Closures or cabinet locks containing dangerous items such as drugs, sharp objects, or glassware. Also remove items on the floor that your little one might reach. Because your little one will probably take and insert new items that he saw in his mouth.
3. Set boundaries for areas that can be explored
Keep your child away from dangerous areas in the house such as bathrooms, kitchens and stairs. You can install a security gate at the entrance of the room, the bathroom, and the top and bottom of the stairs. This is done so that your baby does not crawl up or down the stairs.
4. Keep the house clean
Make sure the floor used for learning crawling babies is clean. Because the dirty or rough surface will make the baby fail to learn to crawl. Make sure there are no debris or any object that can hurt your knees and hands.
If the floor of your house does not have many carpeted areas, you should provide a pedestal on the floor of the house, so that the area for learning babies crawls softer.
