Gross Motor Skills To Expect

Crawling.

Expected Age Range: 7-10 months, or so.

There are a lot of important skills that are developed uniquely by crawling. That's why I hesitate to brush it off when a baby skips this milestone. This is what you can expect to see as crawling skills emerge:

• They will begin to push up and back through their arms to get into a hands and knees position. This is also called quadruped position. 

• They will be able to transition from sitting to quadruped, over their left and right sides. 

• They will start rocking back and forth in quadruped. 

• Your baby will weight shift to the side and unweight one hand at a time in quadruped. 

• They will begin to crawl forward on hands and knees in a symmetrical and reciprocal manner. 

• They may start to crawl forward while pushing a toy along with one hand. 

• Your baby will attempt to crawl up and over, through, and under obstacles. 

• They may begin to crawl up stairs with direct supervision. 

• Your baby might also experiment with other types of crawling like “bear crawling” which is crawling on with their hands and feet only, knees not touching the floor.