... And, Discover Why Baby Crawling Encourages Development

Very few parents realize just how many hidden, yet powerful benefits can be unlocked if their baby crawls at an earlier age.

You may not be aware that encouraging your baby to crawl holds an important key for better future performance. But whether you're aware of it or not, you should seriously consider encouraging your baby to start crawling... as soon as possible.

Crawling helps your baby to become stronger, learning the surroundings faster, improves visual skills and boosts physical abilities.

Your baby may... given enough time... spontaneously learn to crawl. But crawling may not happen naturally if your child doesn't endure lying on his/her stomach.

What this means is that even at this early age Baby may then be developing at a slower rate.

Now, there is an easy yet powerful and proven technique I've used many times to get babies crawling. It's so powerful it will surely help your baby crawl sooner. In essence this technique makes Baby more tolerable to stomach lying.

In fact, babies with poor head control often don't like lying on their stomachs. In fact, here's an interesting discussion to argue this aspect of

Best of all...

Here's the exact technique to get your baby crawling in six easy steps.

Step one... place your baby on his/her stomach on a carpet on the floor.

Step two... gently hold Baby by the elbows and encourage supporting him/herself on elbows. Continue to provide support.

Step three... measure, or try to get some measure of the distance between the floor and Baby's armpit in the supported position.

Step four... get a roller with approximately the same diameter as you've just measured. Rollers are soft cylindrical shaped toys... preferably firm. You do get inflatable ones, but firm, dense ones normally last much longer and can also be a valuable aid to get Baby to sit and walk.

The roller will be placed underneath Baby's upper body for support. It's important that you don't buy the roller too big. Baby's elbows must still reach the floor when lying over the roller.

Click here to see how easy it is to make a baby crawling roller .

Step five... put the roller underneath Baby's upper body... elbows touching the ground in front of the roller. This supported position also allow Baby to lift his/her head and discover the surroundings.

Step six... get down on the floor directly in front of Baby, face towards Baby. Now, let Baby look at your face while you talk to, amuse and encourage Baby to lift his head and take part in the conversation.

Step six is the most important step of this activity. And... Baby will surely endure longer sessions and crawl sooner if it's enjoyable.

Remember, Baby should focus on you and naturally develop a sense of using both legs for support. In no time you'll see Baby supporting the upper body on straight arms and bearing weight on both knees... ready to crawl.

The power of a roller lies in helping to raise Baby's upper body and to look at the surrounding... all while lying down.

And guess what?

But better still... results will come even faster if you can do more than one session per day.

Trouble is, many parents are reluctant to buy any toys or aids such as rollers. Too expensive - is often the criticism. But, the trick is really to find out how many other uses can you find for a roller. In this case you can definitely use a roller also to speed up sitting and walking.

The bottom line is... getting Baby crawling is easy, critically important... yet, often neglected. But with this easy, affordable method... it's a breeze!

If you'd also like to learn from other parents' experience with crawling, then have a look at our diary.

Here are 2 more very easy, yet little known things anyone can do to get their babies crawling.