Crawling?
I’m always reading up on developmental charts to see where my son compares on them. So I was a little concerned when I read that he should be crawling and pulling himself up to stand when he hasn’t done either of those things. I googled “ways to help or encourage your baby crawl” and found rather interesting tips on ideas to help. One suggested laying him on his tummy across your thighs so that he could balance his weight and another was called the towel trick.
My husband folded a bath towel in the way it instructed and placed Shaughn on it. He lifted it up slightly and moved forward so Shaughn could move his legs and arms, a natural reflex the website said would occur. Well, he moved a little and then realized it was just too much work and stopped! He is a definite roller, though. He will get from point A to point B in an instant just by rolling, its quite entertaining. Well, we had his 9 month checkup and when we answered no to our doctors question of Shaughn crawling, he took a look at his legs, and noticed they are not symmetrical. He has a crease on his right leg that is not on his left, which we would always kid was a little extra chub roll.
For precaution, our doc suggested we have x-rays done of his hips, to check for mild DDH, Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip. Just to hear that as a possibility is quite scary so we will be having x-rays done just to check and then go on from there. He spoke about possible physiotherapy as well, but nothing is set until we have the results. Lets just hope our son is lazy!
-Krystle
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