Back to sleep and crawling and other issues (infants, average, parent)
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Note that back to sleep has delayed crawling. My kids slept on their tummies before this was all talked about and they always ended up creeping up to the corner of their cribs. We have a lot of interesting and contradictory information about these things.
The results: babies who slept on their backs took longer to reach a lot of the usual milestones: crawling, tripod sitting (propping themselves up on their arms) and pulling themselves up to a stand.
For babies who slept on their bellies, the average age of crawling was about seven and a half months, Davis said. For infants who slept on their back, it was eight and a half or nine months.
Babies did not take longer to walk, though.
There are benefits to crawling before walking - I am not sure if the research is clear about this. We do know that for some kids, crawling is what promotes crossing the midline and this is critical to reading and writing later on.
I found this study interesting because the scooting on his bottom in a sitting position holding two objects in his hands was what my son did though he did eventually crawl as well.
Some of that held true for my first. She literally went from crawling to cruising to walking within a span of a few days when she was 9 months old. (so, behind on the crawling but it didn't make her later on walking). However, she had been sitting on her own for quite some time (I don't remember exactly, just that she was slightly ahead with that milestone) and got around by rolling to where she wanted to be.
My second never did stay on her back. Even as a swaddled newborn she would somehow get on her side and sleep that way. She started crawling around 7 months and walking at 10 months.
Both detested tummy time.
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