11/05/2025
Crawling: A Big Deal for Little Brains 🧠🐾
Crawling isn’t just a milestone — it’s a brain-building workout for babies.
As they move, they’re wiring pathways that support learning, balance, coordination, and focus for YEARS to come.
✨ Why Crawling Matters
• Strengthens core, shoulders & hips
• Builds balance & posture
• Improves hand-eye coordination & depth perception
• Supports reading, writing & attention later in childhood
• Helps babies explore and process the world through movement
🧠 Primitive Reflex Integration
Crawling also plays a key role in helping babies integrate primitive reflexes — the automatic movements babies are born with.
When these reflexes don’t integrate properly, it can impact coordination, speech, behavior, and learning later on.
Crawling helps the nervous system:
• Develop cross-body coordination
• Build communication between brain hemispheres
• Support organized motor & sensory development
When babies skip crawling or rush through it, the brain may miss some of this important work.
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✨ Parent Tip:
Encourage tummy time + floor play and let your little one explore movement at their own pace — no rush to walk! 🚫👣
👶 If baby avoids tummy time, skips crawling, or shows difficulty with movement…
It may be a sign their nervous system needs support.
Gentle pediatric chiropractic can help improve mobility, comfort, and nervous system function to support healthy development 💛
