The benefits of crawling
Release time : 07/15/2025 09:30:01
Parents are responsible for training their babies to crawl. Why should we train our babies to crawl? Training a baby to crawl not only enhances the baby's activity ability and physical health, but also helps develop the baby's intelligence at an early age.
Is there only one reason for baby crawling? Not at all! In this section, we have summarized 8 benefits of baby crawling.
People often say that babies learn to roll over at three months, sit at six months, and crawl at seven months.
Why does this statement exist? It serves as a reminder to train babies in these specific stages. But why do we need to train babies to crawl? Once babies learn to crawl, aside from strengthening their physical fitness, what other benefits can be derived? Below, I have summarized eight advantages of training babies to crawl: 1. Enhances the baby's activity capabilities. Crawling not only exercises the strength and coordination of the baby's entire body, but it also helps develop the baby's visual and auditory senses, spatial orientation, balance, and other sensory abilities, thereby promoting the development of body coordination.
It can also make the blood circulation smooth, and promote the growth and development of muscles and bones, and improve the ability of children to move from the overall.
2. It can enhance baby's physical condition and promote healthy growth. One of the benefits of training babies to crawl is that it can strengthen their chest muscles, back muscles, abdominal muscles, and the strength of their limb muscles.
Moreover, crawling consumes more energy, which helps babies eat more, sleep better, grow faster in weight and height.
3. It can enhance parent-child communication and cultivate the bond between them. Training babies to crawl can enhance mother-child communication.
After the baby can crawl, the success experiences obtained under the guidance of parents continue to increase, and can crawl in excitement, success and failure and other experience.
These experiences can enrich the baby's emotions. Studies show that babies who are frequently crawling exhibit a much higher level of excitement when they see their parents than those who are not crawling.
4. Promoting social development, once babies start crawling, they are more likely to encounter and interact with items that parents forbid touching or activities that parents forbid, which objectively increases the opportunities for parent-child emotional interaction.
At the same time, babies who can crawl make parents aware of their own initiative and lead them to set certain standards for their children. This leads to discomfort with their child's unacceptable behavior.
These changes further promote the social and emotional development of babies.
5. Promote the development of a baby's brain and prevent the occurrence of intellectual disability in children. Training a baby to crawl requires close cooperation between the big and small brains, as frequent crawling can enrich the neural connections between the large and small brains, promoting brain growth.
The crawling action is from the crawling reflex to the head-up, the turn over, and the roll, and finally develops into real crawling by many times of learning and practice.
Every learning and practice is a mobilization and stimulation of the enthusiasm of the brain.
Therefore, learning to crawl is actually an intensive training of the function of the brain's nervous system, which has an irreplaceable special effect on brain development.
6. Promote the development of your baby's language and make it easier to teach your baby to speak in the future. The frequency of your baby's language communication depends on the frequency of body language. Babies who can crawl constantly use their own bodies to explore the world around them, and there are many behaviors with unknown results. Sex, so the frequency of parents 'language is significantly higher than that of babies who cannot crawl.
Crawling greatly expands the audio-visual range, increases the amount of stimulation, and naturally develops and improves the ability of thinking, language and imagination.
In the constant interaction of parents with language prompts, their own body language, and behavioral results, the accuracy of the baby's understanding of language and the rationality of the body language answers develop much faster than that of a baby who cannot crawl.
7. Crawling can cultivate the baby to develop a good character. Crawling brings a lot of unexpected fun to the baby, and "touching and rolling" also exercises the baby's will and courage, which is conducive to the development of the baby's personality.
8. It can cultivate your baby's desire for exploration. Your baby's motor, nervous and other systems are fully exercised while crawling.
This not only helps the development of your baby's bones, muscles, nerves, and brain, but also lays a good physiological and psychological foundation for them to understand the world earlier and better.
These learning experiences will turn into curiosity, make your baby brave in exploring, and develop the ability and confidence to solve problems independently in the future.
Although it is common and common to train your baby to crawl, there are many benefits to your baby crawling. Parents should develop this awareness so that you can be better and fully prepared, and your baby can learn to crawl more correctly and effectively.
How many months will the baby crawl? How many months will the baby crawl? In most cases, the baby will crawl by 7 months.
However, this also varies from individual to individual. Different babies, different teaching methods, and different environments can all affect a baby's ability to learn to crawl.
Let's take a look at the different stages of a baby learning to crawl, and what parents should pay attention to so that the baby can learn to crawl earlier.
1. At the age of 5 to 6 months, parents should start preparing for their baby's crawling. They will lie on their backs, centered around their abdomen, and move their bodies in circles. Gradually, they will begin to crawl on all fours, but their belly remains pressed against the bed, and their limbs are irregularly moving, often not advancing forward but backward.
At this stage, parents should patiently guide their baby to learn how to crawl correctly.
2. When the baby is 6 to 7 months old, he will be able to sit firmly without support. After that, he may be able to start climbing soon.
The baby will lift its head and look around.
At this time, the muscles of his arms, legs and back were strong enough to prevent him from falling while supporting his body with his hands and knees.
At this time, parents should actively encourage the baby to crawl more so that the baby can crawl skillfully as soon as possible.
3. By the age of 9 to 10 months, the baby will find that by pushing the body hard with the help of his knees, he can move forward.
As the movements become more and more proficient, the baby can learn to change from a crawling posture to a sitting posture.
Babies can even master an advanced crawling technique: Cross-crawling, which means moving one arm and the other leg while climbing forward, rather than moving the same arm and leg at the same time.
After that, parents should be more diligent in training with their baby. As long as they practice more, the baby will be able to practice and make perfect.
How to train your baby to crawl When teaching your baby to learn to crawl, parents can hold the baby's hands with one hand and push the baby's feet with the other. When pulling the left hand, push the right foot, and when pulling the right hand, push the left foot, so that the baby's limbs are passively coordinated.
After a period of such instruction, once the baby's coordination in his limbs is very good, he can crawl on hands and knees.
Additionally, for babies who are struggling with crawling, starting training them from the position of learning to sit up can be beneficial.
In fact, newborns who are learning to crawl typically exhibit the behavior of crawling on their bellies, circling, or even falling backwards. This is part of their learning process.
Parents must be patient; to have their baby learn to crawl, they need to put in some effort.
Finally, we need to open up a space for your baby to learn to climb. You can move unwanted things around it on a hard bed or on the carpet on the floor, and let the baby freely "crawl" on it.
In addition, it should be noted that crawling is a very strenuous exercise for your baby. Be careful not to train for too long each time. Depending on your baby's interests, it only takes 5 to 10 minutes, but you must persist every day.
What should I do if my baby can't crawl? Under normal circumstances, my baby will crawl at 7 months old, but some babies still can't crawl. So what should I do if my baby can't crawl? Parents need to find out why their babies can't crawl.
Here are some suggestions for parents whose babies cannot crawl: 1. Provide more opportunities: When the baby is three or four months old, if the baby is always placed in the cart, it will be difficult for the baby to have the opportunity to take the initiative to crawl.
2. Imitate crawling: Some babies can't crawl, probably because they don't know how to do it.
Babies have a strong imitation ability. At this time, you can find a child who can climb to play. Keep the two babies together and encourage them to climb.
When the baby sees another little friend crawling, he will imitate it and quickly learn to crawl.
3. Adjustable assistance: When some babies cannot crawl, parents need to slightly assist! It's a major challenge for babies to coordinate their movement when crawling-they often focus on one hand while neglecting the other.
At this point, parents can stand behind their baby and place their palms on the baby's soles. They can push one of the baby's feet forward a little way and then push the other foot, helping him to crawl across.
The above three situations can only be effective when the baby's health is in good condition. If the baby has weakness in one side of the body and needs to drag the other leg forward while moving, accompanied by delayed development of other movements, then mothers should consider whether there may be a medical issue with the baby's health. It is best to have a check-up at the hospital as soon as possible to exclude neurological disorders or some brain injuries.
Safety precautions for baby crawling: Young infants have not yet fully developed their body bones, so their movements require great care.
Then, when parents train their babies to crawl, they should focus on the children and not let them run around. This is a very dangerous behavior.
Here are some safety precautions for baby crawling: 1. Precautions for crawling floors If children are crawling on the floor at home, it is best to let them crawl on a smooth floor.
Because bumpy floors can easily cause children to get hurt, such as cuts or scrapes, parents should provide a soft cushioning surface when allowing their child to crawl.
Cement, mortar, tile and other flooring materials can easily cause irreparable regrets to the baby who is learning to crawl.
To avoid danger, soft pads should be placed on hard floors. But the soft pads must be of high thickness and not those with many small patterns to prevent babies from picking out the patterns to eat.
2. Sharp objects should be properly arranged, and when children are crawling, it is best for them to stay away from tables and chairs. At the same time, cotton cloth should be wrapped around corners in the house to prevent children from hitting sharp angles, which may lead to injuries.
Of course, parents should limit the area where their child can crawl, confining them within a large room and using partitions to keep them away from tables and chairs to ensure their safety.
Alternatively, you might consider using protective pads on all the corners of tables or cabinets to minimize any potential injuries in case your child accidentally bumps into them.
When your child is crawling, make sure there are no sharp objects on the floor such as nails or needles to prevent them from getting hurt.
3. If there's a baby at home, it's important to cover all the sockets so that they can't reach them and touch them out of curiosity, which could lead to serious consequences, such as electric shock or other tragedies.
During the process of crawling around, babies may reach electrical outlets. If they happen to notice them and accidentally touch them, there is a risk of electrocution. Parents can use protective covers for electrical outlets, install these devices on unused outlets or use safety outlets.
In the area where children crawl, there should not be any trash cans. This is because curious children might try to open them and end up infecting their hands with various bacteria, or even ingesting the dirty trash, leading to bacterial infections that can cause diarrhea and illness.
5. Prevent falls.
First, don't leave your baby alone in a crib, sofa, rocking chair, high chair, changing table, or anywhere else he might fall.
Second, install safety rails, barriers and safety nets on windows, balconies and porches. If using blinds, choose the pull cord with hooks.
Fourth, for the house with a duplex structure, it is necessary to install protective doors at both ends of the stairs.
Fifth, if the width of the railing is more than 10cm, it should be blocked up with plastic garden fences, plastic sheeting or other materials.
*The medical content involved in this article is for reference only.
If you experience discomfort, it is advised to seek medical attention immediately. The diagnosis and treatment should be based on an in-person consultation with a medical professional.