Crawling tips?

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Hi, I thought I'd see if any of you wonderful mumsnetters have advice..

DS will be 11 months next week, developmentally he's on track, other than the fact that he's not crawling! He loves walking (whilst holding onto people/furniture) and can sit/roll. He moves around by camondo (sp) crawling, but just doesn't get the knee element?

Any suggestions please?

No tips from me, apart from they will do it in their own sweet time
They have to figure it out themselves; my little boy didn't walk till he was 18 months old, did a few steps and not interested then just got up and walked off one day. You'll probably find your little one will do the same with crawling.

Many children don't crawl at all. If he is already getting round with th furniture he may skip crawling altogether,

Some do the commando style as your son, others do a bottom shuffle others just go straight on to walking
He do it in his own sweet time, whether it's crawling or walking.

Do be honest it's a natural thing and maybe he won't do it and will go straight to walking. It's an instinct. Mention it in your 1 year developmental review. I think dragging their legs could be a hip issue... don't quote me though.

Thankyou :)

There's a very old-fashioned theory (which you may encounter from some HV who trained a long time ago) that children who don't crawl before they walk end up with a distorted gait. This is (as far as I can tell) bollocks. If your child goes straight to walking then that's fine.

(I believe there is a cultural element too - there are cultures where children are encouraged to walk from the get-go, and never put down to crawl, just carried until they're able to walk. They do fine.)

He'll probably skip it. Crawling isn't counted as a developmental milestone as not all babies do.

My oldest child didn't crawl, they walked holding hands for ages (to the detriment of my poor permanently stooped back) and then shortly after their first birthday took off walking all by themselves, didn't crawl until much later when they needed to get through tunnels at stay and play groups!

Another one saying they don't all crawl!

DD was 11 months when she started walking holding hands, and did so for 2 very long and back breaking months! Then she started walking on her own at 13 months. She didn't learn how to crawl until nearly 2... She wasn't frustrated about it, perfectly happy to sit quietly etc. She's 5 now and still not terribly physical but perfectly healthy/normal.

DS is 1, has only just started walking holding hands and cruising around the furniture. He can't crawl either, but unlike DD he's FURIOUS about it. Desperate to move on his own, very short attention span, etc, but he hasn't made any progress since he first started trying. I imagine he'll go the same way as his sister and skip crawling!

Mine crawled for 2 days. She only did it when she could already walk, but couldn’t get up off the ground without something to pull up on. So she’d crawl to get to an object. Until she could walk, she just didn’t seem motivated to crawl at all! And once she worked out how to get up off the floor, she didn’t bother crawling any more. The important thing is that they are getting around, how they do it doesn’t really matter much

My youngest never crawled on his knees, he used to crawl on his hands and feet like a spider. It looked quite odd but he was very fast! I used to get people calling their friends over at soft play to take a look.

He walked around 1. I think our very hard floors put him off the traditional knee crawl but it didn't matter. They all do it in their own way, and they get there in their own time.

I have a family member who literally just sat there until she started walking. It's a soft rather than hard milestone and fine to skip it.