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« Reply #15 on: March 05, 2009, 02:25:12 AM »

Did'nt realise there is so much to crawling was actually planning not to let my kid crawl. Thanks to brilbaby I am learning so much things.

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« Reply #16 on: March 05, 2009, 09:38:10 AM »

I have a question about crawling.

I never crawled and went from rolling to walking, I went on to become a very good reader and writer. My brother on the other hand was a huge crawler. He got so fast that we called him ratty (because he could scoot across the foor so quickly), but he went on to have major learning difficulties and to this day now almost 26 still has a hard time reading and never completed school he finished year ten with senior school remaining.

Can someone explain this to me? Did his right brain become to deveoped over his left brain so he saw things differently?
He also had a sleeping disorder as well to the age of 15 where he would 'wake' in the middle of the night and rock back and forth in the crawling position? Is there such a thing as too much crawing?

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« Reply #17 on: March 05, 2009, 11:00:10 AM »


My doughter crawled from 8 to 15 months. Together, 7 months of crawling.
She was late crawler because I did not put her enough on her belly (because she was womiting too much). I don't know why, but she was also a late walker, she started at 1 year and almost 4 months. 
Now she is talking very well, counting to 10 and naming colours. She has long attention span with books and words. But I think that toys (promoting manual competence) are responsible for the rapid development of her speech.

Kimba15, may be your brother had oxygen defficiency?

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« Reply #18 on: March 05, 2009, 11:13:00 AM »

I think your brother had another disorder and it wasn't caused by crawling but if it had been identified at an early age and he had been worked with maybe he wouldn't be having so many problems.

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« Reply #19 on: March 05, 2009, 03:14:23 PM »

I really worry about this.  My little girl is almost eight months old and still is not really crawling.  I didn't give her enough tummy timein the beginnng because she hated it so much.

I also have tile flooring.  I have bought mats for us to play on, but I am thinking about getting a large area rug so she isn't limited in her exploring.

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« Reply #20 on: March 05, 2009, 03:56:26 PM »

After re-reading some posts from this thread, it seems like there may be some confusion.

If I remember correctly, what Doman said was that crawling has an impact on SPEECH.  He didn't say reading/writing etc, though that doesn't necessarily mean that reading/writing isn't helped too.

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« Reply #21 on: March 05, 2009, 03:59:54 PM »

Trinity, I was very worried about all gross motor skills in my daughter - she also hated belly time. My doctor and chiropractor contributed to my fears but didn't give me any worthwhile suggestions either. Had I known about Doman early on, I would have made an effort to follow at least some of the suggestions in Physically Superb. Current living conditions would have made the full program impossible. Marina was advanced in other areas though, finally crawled at 15 months and walked at 18. Now at 21 months she's mastering climbing and I'm happy to say, knows the alphabet, can repeat most words and signs over 50 regularly.

Marina was a large baby and grew very rapidly in the first six months - I think this contributed to her slow large motor development. From my experience, I wouldn't be too worried at this stage unless your baby is missing other milestones. Every baby grows and develops at their own pace, just like the rest of us.

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« Reply #22 on: March 05, 2009, 05:16:38 PM »

According to Doman, crawling was and is suppose to help develop the breathing and hence the lung of the baby .... with developed lungs .... deeper breath etc .... the baby is supposed to be able to develop speech faster ....... ie speaking faster than other babies ....

as for other official reports i read cross crawling like a cat or dog, is spposed to help the child coordinate walking etc ....., espcially on physical activities ..... also it mentioned that those who skip crawling often confuse right from left ......

Perhaps that is for some individuals ......

what i do is put my child on the foam mat, and me laying down with her, sometimes acting like the big elephant or horse, i nudge her with my head pushing her to move .... she likes it alot and tries to move or follow my action or sometimes to chase me ..... she started crawling around 5mth .... on the baby walker by 6mth still with crawling of course, and she started walking on her own at 11th ...... of course we still have play time where we act out crawling .... espcially when i set up obstacles crawling under them etc ..... she is strong as an ox or elephant for that matter .....and at 13-14 mths likes to run too ..... and she has a very very loud forceful voice .... no need loudspeakers .... nothing to do with right brain or reading or what have you .....

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« Reply #23 on: March 05, 2009, 07:48:31 PM »

My toddler was speaking in sentences before he could crawl or walk totally on his own. We of course used flashcards since he was able to recognize things. My infant is 9 months and he just now began crawling but guess what he can walk with assistance, and he began to talk at 7 months old. He now says baba, dada, mama, bye. I was worried about my two with not crawling but I think everyone grows and develops their own time. My infant seems to have more motor skills then my toddler did at the infants age. I can see a big difference between their skills.

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« Reply #24 on: March 06, 2009, 02:02:13 AM »

From what I understand the critical part is crossing over the midpoint of your body. This helps to connect the two parts of your brain and is important. There are exercises that you can do for older children too for children having problems reading. These exercises calm and make you focus better and help improve your reading skills. Crawling as a baby is part of this and it helps to develop the brain for speech and reading.

The site I gave for older children exercises is www.schoolmoves.com. They have two level of exercises basically involve crossing over midpoint of body and eye exercises.

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« Reply #25 on: March 06, 2009, 02:16:29 AM »

I have actually started playing tummy time with my kid but did not know that it actually helps the kid for crawling.

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« Reply #26 on: March 06, 2009, 03:01:04 AM »

 Babies begin life with a 'homolateral' pattern whereby the right side of the brain governs the right side of the body and the left hemisphere the left side. The act of crawling establishes the patterning that allows the energies to cross over.

Here is a video on crossover and the importance of it even for adults, but this is what is happening for the baby with crawling.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/iveP_cEKmWA&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/iveP_cEKmWA&rel=1</a>

walking, swimming, running are natural forms of cross crawl

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« Reply #27 on: March 06, 2009, 04:15:33 AM »

mother of faith ....

I would just like to ask ... when you say your baby talked in sentences ..... is it in english, or any other understandable language .... or is it blabble ......

Alot of confusion has been happening because alot of people wants to claim their baby can talk .... and talking means having a conversation ...... a blabble on the other hand is a one way communication, of which only one understood what is said.

EG my wife and i heard the baby said mummy, but she was 5 mths old .... and she was looking at mama when she called mummy ..... we tot we heard wrong, even though both of us heard it ..... but she did not repeat it again, in any case we teach her to call mama ......, she only called mama again when she was 7 mth .... as with papa etc  while looking at us .... but she started blabbling at 5mth .... it goes on and on and on .... actually first sign of blabbling was 4 mths .... but we tot it was just the usual sound a baby make ..... but you can hear the vocab of blabbling increasing towards 11mth ...... instead of repetitive sound

Qn becomes ..... is babbling talking .......  i personally wouldn't put it as that ..... as i do not want to go around boasting ..... and people actually have no idea what the baby is talking ..... we put it as baby talk .....

Anyway according to GD, baby talks when they are ready and mostly by 1.5yrs old ..... in words we can understand .... be it english or japanese or chinese or mexican etc ..... the fastest is 12 mth but in very very simple word and those that are repetitive .....

maybe we need a new topic and figure out exactly when baby speaks and what is considered as speaking ..... or talking in 1 syllabus word or structered sentences .....

oh yeah there is a report saying baby do call baba dada mama etc at about 6 mth ..... but that is for almost every baby in the word regardless of language .... is that speaking or talking .....   anyway who knows .... someone might be saying their baby is speaking in tangs when they are 1 mth old next time ......

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« Reply #28 on: March 06, 2009, 05:06:06 AM »

I am an Orientation and Mobility specialist who work with blind and visually impaired kids. From my prospective (a lot of research has been done in that subject) kids who do not crawl have problems with gross motor functions, directionality and laterality. I see that every day, because most of the VI kids do not crawl - reason: no visual stimuli. 
Unfortunalety, my own son doesn't want to crawl! We are doing everything we can to encourage him but nothing works! He is almost 9 months old and he will be walking soon. I am very disappointed but I am not giving up and even if he doesn't crawl before walking I am sure he will crawl later, as many kids do.

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« Reply #29 on: March 06, 2009, 07:01:56 AM »

just my experience..my baby didn't crawl just started walking directly. And I didn't see any delay or lack of any developmental motor skills

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