Parents often ask about ways to help their baby crawl.
If I had to boil down the best path to 5 steps, they would be my 5P tracking system.
Many parents know that crawling is one of the main milestones that babies must master. It is a key period when your baby becomes stronger, learns the environment, improves visual skills and improves physical skills.
Crawling is a natural skill that most babies master automatically. But many times it just doesn’t happen, for a number of very good reasons.
For example, babies with poor head control often don’t like to lie on their stomachs. And good head control is one of the key skills a child must have to learn to crawl. Therefore, if head control is mastered later than normal, later development may also be slightly slower than normal.
That’s when parents often start asking for help teaching their baby to crawl.
For the most part, only professionals know how to teach babies to crawl. But they still only use some proven techniques. In essence, most of these techniques encourage your child to be more tolerant of lying on their stomachs.
But there is a technique that I found that works very well, is safe to try, and can be done by all parents.
I call it the 5P Baby Crawl System. It’s a logical 5-step system to get almost any baby crawling in no time.
Let’s look at the 5P steps individually…
P – Put on the mat. The first thing a baby must master before they have any hope of learning to crawl… is getting comfortable in the tummy position. You’ll get great results doing this if you talk to and play with your baby when she’s on the rug.
P – Assemble a roller. Roll an ordinary bath towel into a “sausage”. Of course, you can also buy any other type of roller. They are soft toys with a cylindrical shape…preferably solid. You get inflatables, but the solid ones usually last much longer and can also be used to teach your child to sit and walk.
P – Skating position. Gently place the “sausage” under your baby’s upper body…arms hanging over the front of the “sausage.” The “sausage” towel supports your upper body, NOT your stomach, with your elbows touching the mat. You should lift your upper body slightly, allowing you to discover your surroundings. Make sure your elbows touch the mat; they should not be hanging in the air.
P – Position the elbows. Now you have to do something. Gently hold your baby’s elbows and bring them close to her body. It will almost seem as if her child wants to lie on her elbow. She continues to provide support.
P – Act up front. This is the most important step. Lie on the floor directly in front of your child and look at him. Now let your baby look at your face while you talk, amuse and encourage him.
The idea is to encourage your child to endure longer tummy time sessions. Your baby must focus on you and then he will spontaneously develop the feeling of using his elbows and legs for support. If she’s done right, you’ll soon see her propping herself up on both knees and arms straight…ready to crawl.
The power of this 5P System lies in lifting your baby’s upper body to look around… all while lying down.
It also only takes a few minutes daily to start seeing results. Obviously, if you can do more than one session per day, the results will come faster.
The bottom line is… getting your baby to crawl is easy and important, but unfortunately it is needlessly neglected. But anyone can use this 5-step tracking system to get results almost like clockwork.
