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In addition to these reflexive skills, baby gyms can also facilitate babiesâ development of the ability to bring two hands together at the midline of the body while laying on their back while they hold a toy (around 1-3 months), reach for an object with two hands together at midline (around 4-5 months) and reach across the midline of their body.
Wait, what? A milestone in infancy is vital for literacy development? Yes, because crawling is one of the first ways that babies practice crossing their midline! Five Activities for Crossing the Midline (and Why Itâs Important) Letâs imagine an invisible line running down the human body separating the left side from the right called the midline. When my baby crawls, he uses opposite sides of his body simultaneously. When my preschooler physically uses her body to cross that divide (by using her right hand to reach something on the left side of her body, for example) she is crossing her midline. In both of these scenarios my children are using movements which cause their brains to communicate across their corpus callosum.