Crawling is one of the most important parts of your baby's development as it improves and refines a set of other skills. Moreover, some experts consider this period of time as the "psychological birth" of a baby because it has a major impact on mental advancement. A traditional crawl requires a baby to support his own weight with hands and knees while propelling himself in a forward motion. But babies aren’t limited to the one crawl and many adopt different crawling styles to achieve mobility.

1) Physical Development:

• Gross Motor Skills – larger movements that a baby makes with legs, arms, feet and the whole body. These skills empower the ability to walk, swim, run or jump.
• Fine Motor Skills – strengthening small muscles such as fingers, hands and toes. Fine motor skills develop chewing, speaking, grabbing, writing and drawing abilities.

2) Spatial Understanding:

• This provide the child with a physical understanding and orientation of the material world around them; their relationship. For example, while a crawling baby often prefers to go 'through' things rather than 'around', with spatial understanding, babies learn how to negotiate a more efficient path to their

3) Self-confidence:

• While crawling, babies take physical risks and with each success - and failure – they discover their strengths and weaknesses. As they become more experienced at crawling they will become apt at knowing when to slow down to avoid hurt, navigate a step or investigate obstacles in their path.

4) Binocular Vision and Making Decisions:

• Binocular vision involves your baby training his eyes to look off into the distance and then back at his hands while crawling or reaching for that rattle. We use binocular vision to calculate distances and perceive what we see.
• Crawling develops decision-making skills as babies have to take responsibility to determine their destination, paths and the ways to reach their goals. As a result, they find out that the decisions they make affect the quality of crawling.

As we have explained, a lot of benefits come with crawling but as a parent, please make sure that your baby crawls in a safe environment because during the process babies have an access to every point of a room.