- Asymmetric crawling and constant shuffling of the bottom on the floor often indicates weaker muscles on one side of the body
- According to the Thames Valley Children’s Center website, persistent movement on three points of support may cause delays in learning to walk.
- Walking on your toes or putting your feet in a lopsided position is most often a completely natural element of balancing in a healthy toddler.
- According to information from the Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals website, a marked preference for one hand in an infant is an important reason to visit a physiotherapist.
Why does the baby crawl strangely and shuffle its bottom on the floor?
When your little one starts crawling on the carpet, he often comes up with his own, sometimes quite funny-looking moving techniques. It happens that the toddler pushes with only one leg, pulls the other behind him or simply shuffles his bottom on the floor. If it’s just a passing phase, there’s usually no need to worry because kids are simply testing out different ways to quickly get to their favorite toys..
As we can read on the Thames Valley Children’s Center website, the situation is completely different when such asymmetric movement becomes the main and only way of wandering around the house. Consistent crawling on three points of support or constant shuffling of the butt may indicate weaker muscles or too much tension on one side of the body. It is worth paying attention to this, because ignoring such a habit sometimes causes significant delays in later learning to walk.
When is a baby’s crooked walking a natural stage of development?
The sight of a toddler taking his first steps with his legs wide apart and his arms raised up is a source of pride for parents, although the gait itself may be very clumsy at first. The Choose PT website notes that initially children often have flat feet and slightly bent legs, but this posture usually straightens on its own around the age of two. Walking on tiptoes is also completely natural at the stage of first attempts to discover the world and test one’s abilities. It is worth remembering that smooth and correct walking from heel to toe is quite a difficult skill that a child masters much later, often only between the ages of five and seven. Therefore, minor stumbles, searching for balance and strange positioning of feet at the beginning of the path are simply a natural part of learning to balance.
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