Mama Bear Consulting

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. Crawling isn't just about learning to move (although that's huge in itself). When Ruby crawls, she is developing her future functional and learning support systems.

Crawling is important for:
👉 developing vision including focussing near and far, using both eyes together, working out that vision can lead where her body can now take her
👉 strength building (core and limb strength)
👉 coordination,
👉 independence,
👉 bilateral actions with the left and the right sides of the body working together
👉 an understanding of where she is in space and how she can now interact more independently within that world,
👉 locomotion & motivation -- she sees something, she can get there to investigate it further
👉 she decides when she moves and can do that safely and securely before her balance system and body is ready for walking on two legs
👉 integrating primitive reflexes
👉 developing postural reflexes
👉 developing postural control
👉 planning and linking motor patterns of movement in different sections of her brain (brain development)
👉 AND sooo much more.

Crawling is a crucial developmental milestone that should happen at about 6 - 8 months of age. It is crucial for maturing our body systems and helping them start to work together to support us in later life.

Our body supports the growth and development of our brain.

Crawling and these sorts of movement activities are part of our natural "programming" to establish good body-brain connections, to support sensory integration, to mature our central nervous systems, to help us develop socially and emotionally.

Crawling is important. Children that we see with learning challenges have often skipped or passed through the motor development stages of creeping and crawling very quickly. Crawling impacts later functional and learning success.

It's too important not to notice it. It's too important not to look for it. It's too important to overlook it.

Crawling matters.

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