I can think of nothing I would like more, than to see my son move on his own. This is the primary focus of his therapy sessions. We have been working on crawling for a long time. It took Christian ages just to be comfortable on his tummy. Then we had to work on his arm strength. He can now lay on his tummy, while pushing up on his forearms for quite sometime. We have also been working on him shifting his weight from one arm to the other, by having him reach to point at books. The trick is always to find the proper motivation.
Today Christian was working on army crawling with his physical therapist, and we finally found the perfect motivation. At first he was crawling across his mats to a toy drum set, and doing a pretty great job. Right now, the extent of his crawling is scooting very slowly on his tummy, while someone behind him moves one leg at a time forward. He makes very slow progress, but he is improving.
We got the idea to film him, and then let him crawl to my phone to press play and watch the movie. That did it. He pushed up farther than I have ever seen, and pulled himself forward faster than he ever has. I was amazed. He was just happy to get to the phone, and watch himself. “I’m crawling momma!” he said happily as he watched it playback. I can’t wait until he is really zooming around, but for now, a little scooting is pretty beautiful.
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