Baby's First Steps In This Article: Your child still needs
plenty of time to practice his moves. Let him crawl around to
his heart's content in safe rooms; don't constantly transfer him
from high chair to walker to stroller to crib. Put him on the
floor for most of the day. Encourage him to wander and explore
and then to stop and examine whatever he finds (though make sure
beforehand that anything he's likely to find will be safe). Try
not to discourage him; give him room to roam and babyproof
thoroughly enough so that you won't constantly be saying, "No!"
Your baby will probably figure out how to work himself all the
way around from lying on his stomach to sitting up during the
ninth, tenth, or eleventh month. Yet even if he can't get there
himself, if you sit him up, he should probably be able to
sustain a sitting position for some time by the tenth month. The
key has always been maintaining balance. Throughout this year,
your baby has learned to coordinate his muscles from the top
down. First came control