Games to stimulate the baby's crawling
Baby crawling usually happens around 7 to 9 months, when he is able to stand on his own by sitting forward and placing his hands in front of his body acquiring the crawling position . It is in this position that the baby is telling us that he is ready to start crawling. But we have to take into acco
Baby crawling usually happens around 7 to 9 months, when he is able to stand on his own by sitting forward and placing his hands in front of his body acquiring the crawling position. It is in this position that the baby is telling us that he is ready to start crawling.
But we have to take into account an aspect such as the parachute reflex, is that if we hold the baby by the sides and we lean sharply forward, the baby opens his arms as if he wanted to hold on. This reflex has to appear to the three and disappear at twelve months. This reflex is useful to hold in case of fall and also to learn to get up.
Activities with the baby to help him crawl
When he begins to crawl, suck or crawl, he does so forwards and backwards. The most common is that they start moving backwards since it is easier, especially if their way of crawling is in a sitting position.
Usually this stage has two objectives to achieve with the crawling: or move to acquire objects and explore them. Even try to approach furniture and chairs to try to stand up and get up. Later, around 9 months old, he will begin to crawl with a hand raised or occupied by some toy or object of interest and he will even be able to climb stairs crawling.
Keeping in mind these two objectives we will try to carry out activities, exercises or games that are related to your interests.
How to stimulate the crawling of the baby
1. To put an object so that it can reach it: to start to stimulate the crawling, first we must have at hand a toy that is of its interest, we put ourselves at a distance that allows it move a little without help, and once you start a small movement we help you to adopt a crawling position and we encourage that in that position you can go in search of the toy.
2. The towel game: we roll a blanket in the form of a roller and holding the baby by the trunk is placed on it, in this way what we will do push back and forth the baby so that he lean on your hands. We can do the same but putting a sheet or towel around the trunk of the baby and getting up until he supports his hands and strength with them.
3. With the help of dad and mom: Another way to get this exercise is for the father or mother to sit on the floor with their legs spread, putting the toy in one of them and the baby in the other leg, in this way the baby should pass over both legs and thus be able to reach it and you can help him acquire the proper posture.
4. Obstacle games: when the baby already controls these exercises that we have seen previously we can place 'obstacles' at a small distance that includes; cushions, tunnels with chairs, rolled blankets, and motivate him to surpass them to reach his toy.
5. Pilla catch: crawl next to the baby doing chases in different directions so that we can chase the baby and ask him to chase you. Or make races both crawling.
The most important thing is not to force any position, if we see that the baby is not ready to crawl we will still let him keep playing and we will watch until we see that he is ready. Remember that we have to adjust to their evolutionary development.
