Uncoordinated and not crawling

[AussieLou]

I was talking to my sister about her daughter and the fact that she is pulling herself up and is possible going to skip the crawling stage(she is 5 months old). She then mentioned a article she had read that babies who do not crawl are less cocordinated as children and adults as they do not learn the coordination skills gained during crawling. I did not crawl. I have the most awful coordination skills (or lack of). I also have bad depth perception. Has anyone else experienced this? We are both curious.

just responding to this because I was told just the same thing by 'helpful' folk about DS who bottom-shuffled. supposedly not crawling is linked to dyslexia and various spatial problems...
And DH is dyslexic, as is my only bottom-shuffling cousin - I wonder if there's any research on this?

oh, and one of the 'helpful' people said also well, it's never too late for them to crawl - have crawling races when they're bigger, encourage it as much as you can, any kind of activity that involves (I think) 'movement across the midline'

No one is concerned that she is not trying to crawl. It was just an interesting theory. I walked at 10 months. Sister crawled at 7 months walked at 12 months. Brother crawled at 8 months and walked at 12 months. Is anyone really uncoordinated and did not crawl?

Apparently I crawled for less than a week before walking and I am not particularly uncoordinated (or coordinated for that matter!)

same here with DS who is mildly dyspraxic. He had to do an excercise where he lay on his front on what was effectively a huge skateboard and had to move himself by "doggy paddle" with arms and legs.
Also encouraged to do lots of pincer-grip play (lego, k'nex etc)

Ds never crawled-bottom shuffled and then we discovered he had a global delay (speech and movement),he is also hypermobile in nearly all his joints so they were flopping about and he had no strength there to pull himself up to walk etc he finally walked just after he hit 2-he's a happy very able bodied 6 yr old with no signs of dyspraxia.

DD crawled normally and walked from 11mths-she has quite severe dyspraxia diagnosed at around the age of 7 (clumsiness,lack of co-ordination,unable to grasp shoelace tying and bike riding and spatial awareness).

DS never learnt to crawl properly and walked at 10 months. He is dyslexic but no real coordination problems.

Whether you crawled or not as a baby has NO predictive value on its own in assessing whether you are likely to be a co-ordinated or unco-ordinated adult. There are MANY reasons for not crawling as a baby, of which poor co-ordination is only one, and whilst it may be poor co-ordination that causes the failure to crawl in that instance, it is certainly never the failure to crawl that causes poor co-ordination.

Of course it is going to help a child with co-ordination problems to teach it to crawl, as crawling requires reasonably good co-ordination, but it isn't going to cure the child - it will still have co-ordination problems after being taught how to crawl. Whether its co-ordination problems are likely to be any less in the future if it is taught how to crawl before, eg, the age of 1 is totally and utterly unproven and very probably a load of bollocks. And to teach a baby with no co-ordination problems how to crawl when it's just not interested in getting around that way is silly/unkind/unlikely to work/pointless. So, in my opinion, the value of that particular research is minuscule, as it doesn't tell us anything very helpful, but instead opens the way for the parents of non-crawling children to get concerned for no reason.

If your child has other obvious problems besides not crawling, then the sooner he or she gets help the better, and you don't need research like this to know that.

Does it show that I find this piece of research a little bit annoying??!!...

I am not trusting this research at all. It was probably done in a supermarket somewhere. It was interesting to note that I fit all the criteria. Didnt crawl. Pretty unco. Just wanted to see if others fit the bill.