- As parents, we get super excited
when our little ones learn to sit for the very first time,
but sometimes babies get stuck in sitting,
which means it's difficult to progress onto crawling.
And one of the reasons this might be happening
is because your baby doesn't know how to go into
and out of sitting.
So in this video, we're going to cover
the two different ways that you can teach a baby
to get into and out of sitting,
which will hopefully get them one step closer to crawling.
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Babies can learn to get into and out of sitting
independently from seven months to 10 months of age.
But as parents, instead of placing our babies
straight onto the floor and sittings,
so just popping them on the floor and sitting,
what you can do is you can help your baby learn
the motor pattern to kind of go from sitting into lying
and lying into sitting by helping them transition
through this movement.
By giving them that opportunity, you're allowing them
to learn the motor pattern required
to complete that movement as well as strengthen the muscles
that are needed to do the movement.
Once your baby can independently get into
and out of sitting, they're going to have new found freedom,
and it's going to get them one step closer to crawling.
So help them learn this motor pattern,
there are two different techniques that you can use.
So one of the techniques that you couldn't do
to get them into and out of sitting is through side lying.
So say we're going to roll them onto our rights,
their right side.
How you would do that is you would have them on their back,
and then you would roll them onto their right side
and ensure that their hands are out in front of their body.
Then you would place one hand on their left hip,
and the other hand would be on their right arm.
What you wanna do is when you bring them up into sitting
you wanna apply downward pressure on that left hip,
and you want to ensure that the right arm stays straight
and drags along the floor,
because that's essentially going to support their body
until they get up into sitting.
Once they're in sitting,
how you would get out of this position is that you would
again saying we're going through to the right side,
you would use one hand to place it on their right arm,
and then you would lengthen that arm
and place it on the ground and trying to keep it straight
you would gradually move that arm away from their body,
again, providing support at the left hip or the trunk
at this point,
and then you would help them get onto their side.
Once they're on their side, on the floor,
you would then roll them onto their back.
Now, when you're doing this technique with your little one,
you wanna make sure you do it equally
going through the right side and through the left side
because that ensures that your baby is going to have
equal strength on both sides of the body.
The second technique for getting
into and out of sitting is through four point kneeling.
Now these approach is only suitable
if you know that your can support themselves
in that four point kneeling position.
So the position know essentially that they go
in when they're crawling.
So what you want to do is when your baby is lying
on their tummy and their arms are stretched out
and they're lifting their body off the ground,
you place your hands behind their thighs
and you flick their legs underneath their body.
So then they're now in that four point position.
Once they're in that four point position
what you would do is you would place your hands
on their hips and then you would gradually and gently
pool their hips slightly backwards
and in a downward motion to the side
and that would bring them up into sitting.
Now to get them out of this position
from sitting into lying
or into that four-point kneeling position,
you would place your hands on their hands
and put them out in front of their body
and then encourage them to go up
into that four point position.
They would technically, if they're able to do that anyway,
they would get into that position themselves.
I would mainly be focusing on getting them
from that four point position into sitting.
So that's it parents,
those are two different ways that you can teach a baby
to get into an out of sitting.
Hopefully they learn the skill pretty quickly
and then they have that new found freedom.
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and hopefully I'll see you next week
where I'll share more parenting tips and tricks.
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