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Baby is 6 months, she sits unassisted and has done for over a month and has been doing this for weeks now but she just can’t crawl. How can I help and how long do you reckon before she finally gets it?

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I just want to say congratulations on you. R almost crawling baby and I absolutely love love. Love you, baby's hair.

My babies 6 months to a march baby and she doesn't sit unassisted or even go on her legs or knees like this , so she's doing really well just leave her she will do it xx

What day in March was she born

Not long I watched a video today 6 stages of crawling on YouTube and that looks like the last stage before actually crawling

thank you 💖

oh really! She groans if I just leave her tho like she’s really frustrated 😅😅

18th

oh wow thanks!

I think she's actually quite advanced just being able to do this!

My little girl was doing this about 2-3 weeks before she crawled properly for the first time (she was launching herself forward leading up to the first crawl), now she is unstoppable! She has started climbing up things so we've bought some soft play bricks. She crawled on the day she turned 6 months 🥰

When in this position, we encouraged.her to lift her hands by holding up a toy; I believe that helped

she will get it soon just leave her for 15-20 mins then give her a break for a bit :) she's doing really well honestly, I'm so worried about my daughter but she's my 3rd baby and her sisters do everything for her 🤦‍♀️ so she doesn't have to "learn" to do anything, my LG was born 28th so not much difference between our 2 , how much does she weigh ? And are u bottle or breastfeeding

that’s so strange cause I’ve always knows 2nd and 3rd babies to do things early as they learn from siblings? Why are you worried? I don’t know how much she weighs as I don’t see my health visitor anymore and she’s bottle fed. She is big for her age though she’s in 9-12 clothes x

Check out this video on helping them crawl!

https://youtu.be/aGIMVDOQL7c?si=gDgHRINgXknfR2T3

just because shes not doing much and has little interest k doing it 🤷‍♀️ my first 2 were really good they were so quick , ahh see my LG is only 16lb she still fits in 0-3 month clothes 🤦‍♀️ this is my first time breastfeeding so it's a hole different journey for me, I suppose she will do it one day , she is attached to me 24/7 she won't go down and play she just sits on my knee constantly it's draining 🤦‍♀️

all babies are different I guess. Based on these comments it seems my little one is doing things “early” so I wouldn’t worry at all as long as baby is happy

this was really useful thank you!

We’re at this stage as well :)) they’re really cute, but mine gets everywhere!

Looks like it won’t be long at all!! 👏🏻My girl started to do this from 5 months and crawled 3 weeks later.

To help her I put her favourite toys just out of reach, a lot of praise even if she only moved/shuffled a tiny amount, I would let her practice by pushing her feet off my hands whilst on her tummy. I’d also hold toys above her for her to reach out while she was in the all 4 position to help with her balance. She can now pull to stand and is absolutely everywhere and her favourite place to hide is under the kitchen table 😅🙃🙃 x

Some babies don’t end up crawling some bum shuffle and pull thems selves around so I wouldn’t worry too much x

she’s already bum shuffling

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