If your baby struggled to crawl/move and you got help

[Notfeelinglikemyselftoday]

Who did you see to get help? Cranial Osteopath, Physio, Chiro, someone else?

My 9mo has started crawling and he only uses one side of his body. He is bearing weight on his left arm but uses his right in an army crawl.

I know it's normal for some babies, but guy feeling is I don't think that's the case for DC. Thanks

I've not experienced that but have seen other posters in the past who've had some success with physio. Have you seen the GP yet @Notfeelinglikemyselftoday?

Thanks @SiouxsieSiouxStiletto. I've not had great success with my GP, no. Had a lot of feeding issues which I think are connected and we're dismissed. Might try and get a HV appointment.

Seeing the HV sounds like a good idea, you could ask her to do the 9 month Ages & Stages too, just to check that everything is on track

My DD was a one sided crawler as well. Like an army crawl but with one leg/arm doing all the work. I worried myself sick about things like CP and like you the GP wasn’t concerned as she could bear weight on both. I contacted the HV who didn’t seem worried about it either.

She did it probably from about 9-11 months and then one day just started crawling normally, and walked at the very average age of 13 months. She’s almost 2 now and perfectly fine.

Incidently I did take her to a cranial osteopath when she was a newborn as she wouldn’t be laid on her back but I think it was a bit of a waste of money to be honest. I definitely wouldn’t take him to a chiro though.

The ages and stages suggestion above is a good one - it’s worth looking at the wider picture, if all else is okay then it might just be a quirky thing he does.