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Has anyone's child bypassed crawling completely?

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Flllightattendant · 04/02/2008 08:01

Ds2 has started pulling up to furniture, in the last couple of days, very excited all round but he hasn't crawled at all!

Is this normal? We would stick him on his tummy and the extremities would wave a bit but nothing touched the ground!

Now I doubt he will bother.

Anyone else had a non crawler? He's nearly 8 months btw.

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liath · 04/02/2008 08:03

A friend's ds did, he went straight to walking and never crawled.

dejags · 04/02/2008 08:07

DS1 started by pulling himself up and cruising a bit. He then learned to crawl - did this for about a week and then started walking.

He was 8 months when he starting pulling himself and was walking (fairly confidently) by 10 months.

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Flllightattendant · 04/02/2008 08:09

Ooh yippee! Just as we thought he was boring slow baby he is on the way to mobility!

No teeth yet though...

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BabiesEverywhere · 04/02/2008 08:18

Wow, that is interesting I have never heard of a child by pass crawling all together.

My DD crawled for three weeks and then started cruising/walking and never crawled again but we did have those three weeks.

duchesse · 04/02/2008 08:18

Yes, I don't think it's meant to be a good thing from a coordination point of view. This was certainly the case with my son, who was so mal-coordinated for the first 6 years of his life that he was rarely if ever without a massive bruise or cut on his head (had a big he couldn't seem to stop hitting the ground when he fell). That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

We did try to make him crawl back then by demonstrating and encouraging him to copy us, but he just regarded us pretty much the way he does now at 14 when we're doing something incomprehensibly parent-like.

harpsichordcarrier · 04/02/2008 08:19

yes my dd1 cruised from seven months, walked at 13m, never crawled
she liked being upright

harpsichordcarrier · 04/02/2008 08:21

oh and fwiw she is perfectly normal as far as co-ordination is concerned, uses a scooter really well, rides a bike, climbs well and confidently and is great at gym

duchesse · 04/02/2008 08:22

Oh, and mine all walked at 10 months, although the girls did crawl. Apparently the nerve pathways for walking are ready around 10 months in most babies. All they need to muster is the desire to walk and the courage to be off the ground.

Walking age is no indicator of any kind of advancedness though! I have a friend whose daughter walked very confidently at 8 months and another who didn't take her first steps until 23 months, and neither is any more advanced than the other at 12-13 yr of age. I can see why you are excited though- it is an exciting stage.

NatalieJane · 04/02/2008 08:24

DS1 never crawled, he cruised at 8m then learned how do a kind of soldier like 'slide' on his belly at 9m, then walked at 14m. But when he started walking, he never 'toddled' he just walked and he could walk for miles within about a week.

DS2 cruised from about 9m, crawled from about 2 days later, and is still not walking at nearly 14m.

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Flllightattendant · 04/02/2008 08:30

Funny how some seem to cruise first then crawl!

Duchesse - the excitement is not due to a sense of achievement or prodigial thoughts...rather that he has done nothing whatsoever for about 4 months since he started sitting up, and I was finding it a bit dull!

Interesting about the neural pathways...Ds1 walked at 9-10 months, I can't imagine it with this one, his feet are all sort of curled still. Awww

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Chopster · 04/02/2008 08:31

dd never crawled, not even afterwards. She started crusing at about 7 mnths. She had to be picked up (didn't have the strength to pull up at first) and then she would happily spend hours going round and round the perimeter of a room! Used to drive me nuts, because she didn't want to play with toys, jsut cruise round and round. Took a while before she walked independantly though.

duchesse · 04/02/2008 08:43

Flight- He was thinking about getting up and walking! Still waters....

Maveta · 04/02/2008 08:51

I sometimes wonder when mine is going to get on with it! lol

He is 9mo and loves to stand holding our hands (would do it all day if he could) but only pulls himself up in the bath, nowhere else, and no crawling either, he rolls everywhere. Although he is starting to hump the floor so I guess he's on his way??

coppertop · 04/02/2008 10:43

Dd never crawled. She bum-shuffled for a while but then moved on to walking.

Ds1 was the earliest to crawl of my 3 (7mths) but has poor co-ordination.

Piffle · 04/02/2008 10:44

ds was pulling up before he crawled, infact he only decided to crawl to get to something to pull himself up on....

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Flllightattendant · 04/02/2008 13:11

That's funny about coordination - Ds1 still can hardly ride a bicycle (steering and pedals at once) though he has good fine motor skills. He was an early walker, moves well etc.

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harpsichordcarrier · 04/02/2008 13:17

I have been mnooching around trying to find any evidence for the proposition that non crawlers have co-ordination issues, but haven't found anything

duchesse · 04/02/2008 13:35

It was published prior to 1994; at least that's when I became aware of it. But then, maybe that because that's when it was relevant to my child.

glamourbadger · 04/02/2008 13:39

My DD bottom shuffled then walked. She didn't learn to crawl till around 20 months - months after she walked!

duchesse · 04/02/2008 13:39

Here's one (Hope the link works...)

duchesse · 04/02/2008 13:41

Also this

lizziemun · 04/02/2008 13:45

DD1 never crawled.

Was pulling herself on the furniture at 7/8 mths and was walking unaided at 10mths.

sb6699 · 04/02/2008 14:40

My DD1 never crawled and was walking unaided at 9 months.

My DS crawled and walked about 12 months and DD2 crawled and didn't walk until she was 14 months.

Think it just depends on the baby really.

Flibbertyjibbet · 04/02/2008 14:47

DS1 never crawled - well sometimes just between things he could pull himself up on and carry on cruising round the room!
Was walking at 11m, not toddling, just set off across the room and 2 weeks later was walking to the park.
DS2 crawled from 8m, started toddling at 14m and walked at 15m.
They are all different.
Watch out though, last time there was a thread like this, someone came on saying that if a child doesn't crawl they are behind at school - reckoned that crawling gives them the co-ordination to write and look up at the blackboard honest.

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