The average age a baby learns to crawl is usually between six and 10 months. Some children will never crawl instead they shuffle their bottoms slithering on their bellies or moving trying to move to pull themselves up. What is important is your baby becomes mobile, what method is not important.

Typically crawling follows a baby’s ability to sit up without having to be supported which most accomplish by six to seven months old. At that point she can keep her head up and look around and her body muscles are strong enough to keep her from falling off to one side or backwards.

Over the next few months your baby will gradually learn to confidently move from sitting to being on all fours to soon grabbing and pulling herself up. Usually between nine and 10 months she will realize how to push off with her knees and will soon have the thrust forward to be mobile. Then she will soon be moving the arm and leg on opposite sides in unison – cross-crawling- and following that it is just a short while before she will be walking.

Following crawling the only thing left to learn before walking is standing. So therefore she will soon start to pull herself up to a standing position and use that object to support herself. Once the art of balancing on her legs becomes second nature, she will be ready to stand alone without support and then walk around while have one hand on something for moral support.

Before the crawling disappears and the standing alone leads to walking with support and then to all out walking on their own and to just be on the safe side it is good to have lots of pillows and other soft things strategically located in case she decides to take a nose dive into the floor.

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