10th May 2012 , Posted by Yi Lin - 2 Comments

To Crawl Or Not To Crawl?

“My friend’s baby started crawling at six months. My son’s almost eight months and he hasn’t shown any interest in crawling. Is he delayed developmentally? When I read this question in my copy of “What To Expect: The First Year”, it was as if the authors had taken the words right out of my mouth (I » Read More

6th May 2012 , Posted by Yi Lin - 5 Comments

A Walk On The Dangerous Side?

Okay, someone please tell me that I’m not a bad mum for doing this: I PUT MY BABY IN A WALKER. Yes, you know – one of those little chairs on wheels. To many of us who were born in and grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, this would probably have been how we learnt to » Read More

12th April 2012 , Posted by Mandy - 3 Comments

House-proofing the Crawling, Cruising Menace

I like how the book, “What to Expect: the First Year” describes Cristan’s current phase of development: “You applauded wildly your baby’s first successful attempt at pulling up, and cheered proudly from the sidelines as creeping finally became crawling. Now you’re wondering what all the celebration was about. Along with the new mobility has come a » Read More