My daughter turns 11 months old tomorrow and is not yet
crawling. I know that every child develops at their own rate,
but when do I become more concerned? When pediatricians assess
development, we look at several dimensions at once: cognitive
skills, language and social skills, and motor skills. This
bigger picture is usually more helpful in deciding whether there
is a problem than one skill alone. Though isolated skills are
important, certain ones have much more significance than others.
For example, visually following an object in a complete arc by
four months is key and more important than the exact month a
baby rolls over. In terms of a big picture, crawling isn't a
very important one. In fact, some children learn to pull to
stand and begin to walk without ever crawling. More importantly
for your child is that her other nine-to-12 month skills are
falling into place. She should know her name, she should be
babbling with vowels and consonants and speaking one or two
words, she should be able to pick up a s