Showing posts with label crawling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crawling. Show all posts
Friday, May 4, 2012
Great Article on the Benefits of 4 Point Crawling
Edited to fix the link - Thanks for letting me know Liz:)!
I found this article today & thought I would pass it along. It has some really good points about the benefits of a 4 point crawl.
Baby Crawling: How Important It Really Ishttp://icpa4kids.org/Wellness-Articles/baby-crawling-how-important-it-really-is/All-Pages.html
Monday, December 26, 2011
K's Crawling Track Needs a New Home!
If you live in Canada, & are interested in a crawling track for your baby, K's has been sitting in my garage gathering dust for a few years now. It is time it moves on & helps another baby become mobile. If you are interested, you can see a picture of it in my post on Learning to Crawl
I am giving this away for free, but I would love to hear an update on how it works for your baby, & I would appreciate it being given to another baby with Down syndrome or special needs when you no longer needs it.
If you are interested, you can contact me at jtkkmom@mail.com
I am giving this away for free, but I would love to hear an update on how it works for your baby, & I would appreciate it being given to another baby with Down syndrome or special needs when you no longer needs it.
If you are interested, you can contact me at jtkkmom@mail.com
Sunday, October 2, 2011
31 for 21 - Just Crawling Along..........
This summer, we changed K's program up a bit some days to try to make it more interesting. We did some activities outside for example. In this picture, the girls are creeping to the sand box - if I remember correctly, they are being bears.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Learning to Crawl - Crawling Track
By the time K was about 6 or 7 months of age, I had been reading a lot about Glenn Doman & his organization - IAHP.
http://iahp.org/
Some of the stories of kids with DS on this program are pretty inspiring
I bought a few of his books including this one:
Which can be purchased here:
http://www.gentlerevolution.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=G&Product_Code=0206
In his book, Glenn Doman talks about not helping our kids to sit until they are able to get into that position themselves. He also encourages allowing them a lot of tummy time & encourages teaching them to crawl on their belly & creep in a four point position as much as possible. This made a lot of sense to me. Not only that, I could understand how a sitting baby could play with toys you give her in new ways, but a crawling baby has a whole new world open up for them to explore. In my opinion, they are stimulated in so many more ways & exposed to so many new & wonderful things by being able to crawl.
We took Glenn Doman's advice from the book & built a crawling track. Ours was a home made crawling track. It looked something like this, only ours was a little longer:
Here is a picture of our crawling track. I can't find my original & for some reason the quality is really bad. Hopefully you can get a bit of an idea. The frame is made of wood & the covering is naughahyde. It is a little dusty in the pic & leaning up against the garage wall, but it gives you a bit of an idea. The darker patches were for contrast to help with vision & stimulation. Some people use the black, white & red infant stimulation cards for this, & I actually did try to place things like that on the wall beside where we had the track.
The crawling track was wonderful for helping K to learn that she could be mobile, a little earlier than she would have realized otherwise. At first we raised one end of the crawling track up. By keeping the track on an incline, K was able to use gravity to help her begin to move. Before long, she would begin to move her arms & legs & inch her way down the track. As she became more mobile, we lowered the track until she was able to crawl when it was sittingflat. We were so excited the day that she crawled off the track & just kept going! She was only 8 months old!
K soon became very proficient at crawling on her belly, & by 12 months of age, she was crawling in a four point position & even pulling to stand. Although she was pulling to stand, we encouraged her to crawl, not to walk & gave her every opportunity possible. While on a family holiday when she was 14 months, we allowed K to crawl through museums, parks, beaches, etc. I'm sure we horrified some first time, or germ concerned mommies, but K got tons of exercise & stimulation. I did find myself washing her hands about every 5 minutes though & thankfully she never caught any type of cold or illness over it.
If you have any question about how we made our crawling track feel free to ask in the comments or just check out the Physically Superb book. Also, there are a few videos on You Tube that you can check out.
This blog has a great crawling track tutorial.
http://iahp.org/
Some of the stories of kids with DS on this program are pretty inspiring
I bought a few of his books including this one:
Which can be purchased here:
http://www.gentlerevolution.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=G&Product_Code=0206
In his book, Glenn Doman talks about not helping our kids to sit until they are able to get into that position themselves. He also encourages allowing them a lot of tummy time & encourages teaching them to crawl on their belly & creep in a four point position as much as possible. This made a lot of sense to me. Not only that, I could understand how a sitting baby could play with toys you give her in new ways, but a crawling baby has a whole new world open up for them to explore. In my opinion, they are stimulated in so many more ways & exposed to so many new & wonderful things by being able to crawl.
We took Glenn Doman's advice from the book & built a crawling track. Ours was a home made crawling track. It looked something like this, only ours was a little longer:
Here is a picture of our crawling track. I can't find my original & for some reason the quality is really bad. Hopefully you can get a bit of an idea. The frame is made of wood & the covering is naughahyde. It is a little dusty in the pic & leaning up against the garage wall, but it gives you a bit of an idea. The darker patches were for contrast to help with vision & stimulation. Some people use the black, white & red infant stimulation cards for this, & I actually did try to place things like that on the wall beside where we had the track.
The crawling track was wonderful for helping K to learn that she could be mobile, a little earlier than she would have realized otherwise. At first we raised one end of the crawling track up. By keeping the track on an incline, K was able to use gravity to help her begin to move. Before long, she would begin to move her arms & legs & inch her way down the track. As she became more mobile, we lowered the track until she was able to crawl when it was sittingflat. We were so excited the day that she crawled off the track & just kept going! She was only 8 months old!
K soon became very proficient at crawling on her belly, & by 12 months of age, she was crawling in a four point position & even pulling to stand. Although she was pulling to stand, we encouraged her to crawl, not to walk & gave her every opportunity possible. While on a family holiday when she was 14 months, we allowed K to crawl through museums, parks, beaches, etc. I'm sure we horrified some first time, or germ concerned mommies, but K got tons of exercise & stimulation. I did find myself washing her hands about every 5 minutes though & thankfully she never caught any type of cold or illness over it.
If you have any question about how we made our crawling track feel free to ask in the comments or just check out the Physically Superb book. Also, there are a few videos on You Tube that you can check out.
This blog has a great crawling track tutorial.
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