How to help baby crawl??

[Goostacean]

At my wits’ end with constant whining from DC2, 9mo, who desperately wants to crawl and can’t yet. He flops onto his front reaching for toys and then whinges loudly and eventually starts crying.

All. The. Time. I’m constantly re-sitting him for him to be yelling on his front 30 seconds later.

Any tips to get him past this stage ASAP???

My LO would not crawl until I tempted him with pieces of a cream cheese bagel! It was pretty effective but he loves food.

@Ariela

Why do you want him mobile? I'd have put up with the racket and let him wail to keep him staying put where I left him. Nightmare moving stuff out the way.

So she can buy a play pen to contain him in until he learns to climb out of it...

OP just leave him on his front with the toys around him and put some music on. He will figure it out like a PP said in less than a month.

This was a godsend when DD was at the same stage. It keeps them amused on their tummy and rolls backwards, encouraging them to follow along. She now crawls behind it

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fisher-Price-GJW14-Crawl-Hedgehog-Mirror/dp/B07Y1HMWGS/ref=ascdff_B07Y1HMWGS/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=403855685724&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=7183093396433098678&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006886&hvtargid=pla-878652159973&psc=1&th=1&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=86194232536&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=403855685724&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=7183093396433098678&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006886&hvtargid=pla-878652159973

We’ve tried crawling in front of him! He just doesn’t get it yet. He is obsessed with reaching my phone but again, it doesn’t result in real crawling yet... We’ll keep trying!

A moving toy inspired my son to start crawling. I think it was a car type thing.
We also had a noisy tortoise which moved every time you pressed on it. He used to try to grab it and it used to move away from him.
Although my friends daughter never crawled and started walking at 14 months overnight. She was an early talker and had sentences by 18 months.

@redferrari

A moving toy inspired my son to start crawling. I think it was a car type thing. We also had a noisy tortoise which moved every time you pressed on it. He used to try to grab it and it used to move away from him. Although my friends daughter never crawled and started walking at 14 months overnight. She was an early talker and had sentences by 18 months.

Talking skills and crawling/walking skills aren't linked.

One of my nephews' and my own toddler were both early talkers but they both crawled before they walked.

I don’t care what he does as long as he stops whining!

I used one of those stacking tower toys when mine were almost at the crawling stage. They were so desperate to get to it to knock it down they figured out the crawling thing. After a few tries when they went backwards instead, of course, getting very frustrated in the process

Does he see / mix with any other crawling babies? He will learn through mimicking.

I didn't hold her up, physio said if she couldn't hold herself up don't hold her up

FINALLY, he crawled today properly for the first time!!! About bloody time... 😂

Well done to your little one

Now get a playpen/travel cot/baby jail immediately

Mine didn't crawl till he was 10 months, but then started walking three weeks later. And hasn't stopped causing chaos since!

My DD finally learned to crawl frontwards (she had mastered backwards) with the bribe of a prawn cracker.

She wanted it so much she worked out what to do.

He finally worked it out whilst literally on the Zoom call with the Health visitor for his 8-12m review, because he wanted to get hold of the laptop cable! Obviously I then got a stern warning to not let him play with it, despite it being his motivator and of course the first time EVER that he’d even come close to it (I have never brought my laptop to his room before...). Ah well

Unfortunately it's an annoying faze! My son didn't crawl till nearly 11 months and nothing I did seemed to help! (I'm sure it did but didn't feel like it)