Crawling

My little girl is 8 months and 1 week and not crawling. She doesn't seem interested really. She doesn't get herself onto her hand and knees. And when I get her in crawling position she rocks for a bit then her legs spread out and she's on her tummy again
I put a toy Infront of her or the cat and she just tries to reach with her arms and then gets upset with frustration
She does help weger love being on her feet, I have no doubt she'll be walking by Christmas
Anyone else in the same boat?

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My son was the same until a week or so ago. He'd be on all 4s and then his legs would go out and he'd be on his belly pulling himself along. I started to hold his knees so they couldn't spread and that helped. He's off now, but it was a lot of army crawling before this

My little boy had shown absolutely no interest in crawling and always hated tummy time! He loves being on his feet and will happily walk holding our hands. However on Sunday he randomly put himself into the crawling position and just did it. I honestly thought he’d just never crawl. She might surprise you randomly like our boy did 😂

No interest here either, but my eldest didn’t crawl until 10 months so I’m not worried!

My son has been army crawling since 5.5 months- he doesn’t crawl properly, my friends baby was almost 11 months before he started crawling- I wouldn’t worry! Some babies just take their time and some are desperate to move. X

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