When did y’all’s sons start crawling? Mine will be 11 months in the 5th and still shows no interest in crawling at all. He is two months premature also. The health department says if he doesn’t start by the 5th, then we will have to do early intervention. And then everyone else is saying “boys are usually delayed more.” We do tons and tons of tummy time and so much more.
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When they were ready.
All babies are different.
Talk to your pediatrician and ask if they can refer you to physical therapy. All babies are different. But worth a shot to ask your pediatrician.
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I would be more lenient. He was premature. Not saying early intervention is bad because its not my son started therapy at 13 months ocupational and developmental. Hes lvl 3 non verbal autistic. And it helped alot. But with crawling and premature i wouldnt worry about it right now
My son was 7 months old when he started but he wasn’t very good at it, he dragged his legs and pulled with his arms it was real goofy looking. It helps to put things just out of reach so they have to move to get it, if I crawled out of sight my son would try to follow me but it took time. All babies are different though, just keep doing your best. 
I have 6 kiddos…. All different stories all boys… One crawled for a day at 1 year old and started walking literally the next day at 1 year old… one crawl since 6 months until 1… but my youngest now is 1 year and 2 months and started crawling at almost 12 months and no signs of interest in walking, barely started to stand but loves his little walker… I say not to worry🤔
Good luck!
If he has met all other milestones I wouldn’t worry. My son started at 12 to 13 months but was delayed in everything at that point. Later diagnosed with intellectual disability
Mine never crawled. They just got up and started cruising.
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Mine got physical therapy as she was 3m early. She had muscle issues in her legs I had no idea about and physical helped her tremendously. She ended up getting it for 5 years. She started getting it at 12m and helped her start walking by 15m. Get it and don’t listen to others follow your own thoughts and gut
Normally you’d wait an additional two months to be concerned, depending on how many months early the child is.
One question I have, is why is the health dept involved ? Raised two kids and I promise you - the health department has never met them. Grandkids, same.
Some don’t crawl at all. Why would the health department say that based solely on that? Plenty of kids just go straight to walking I know so many
My premie never crawled but started to walk on his first birthday. He never even tried to crawl.
I have a child with a paralyzed arm from birth injury. He had physical therapy from the time he was 2 months until about 14 months when he “graduated” to occupational therapy.
Because of the injury he needed the therapy to meet every physical milestone (rolling, sitting, crawling, standing, and walking)
We started working on crawling as soon as he mastered sitting. I want to say he was about 8 or 9 months when we started working on it. He never really mastered a normal crawl. He butt scooted.
I can’t remember when my youngest started crawling…I think somewhere around the 9 month mark.
What I learned is that because every baby is different there is an age range for milestones.
Typically the age range for crawling is 7-10 months. Even 9 months (two months adjusted) your baby would be on the ‘cusp’ of falling out of that age range.
Provided your insurance pays for the therapy or the state pays for it…it costs you nothing but a little time and (possibly) a little gas (if it’s early intervention/first steps they’ll come to you). And could be extremely beneficial to your baby.
Physical, occupational, and even speech therapy will not hurt a baby or child who ends up not needing it but could be detrimental to a baby or child who needs it and doesn’t get it. The problem is waiting until you know 100% that they need it is often waiting too long.
If he is otherwise healthy, I would expect him to eventually do this on his own timeline.
I would still encourage the early intervention though.
There are so many things you can both learn together.
My two boys crawled around 6 months and walked at 12… but they had speech delays. One didn’t speak til 4, the other slightly behind at 3.
Early intervention helped us with our delay.
Just goes to show though, every child is different and will develop on their own timeline.
Some babies skip crawling. He might skip it and go straight to walking. If he’s healthy in all other aspects, meeting all other milestones, he should be fine. All babies do things when they’re ready, not at any specific time.
Some kids don’t crawl first one of mine walked first… but he was 6 months… my other boy walked a 7 months didn’t really crawl the younger 2 crawled first but were walking by one…
All kids are different. My 1st daughter crawled at 7m walked at 9m. 2nd daughter didn’t crawl until just over 11m and didn’t walk until 15m (nothing physically wrong just lazy… we had her thoroughly evaluated). My son crawled at 7m and walked at 10m.
My daughter was born one month early and began crawling at ten months.
He’s 2 months premature, so really He’s 9 months adjusted. Give him another month or 2 before you freak out. And yes, boys can take longer to start things. I have 6 children, 3 girls and 3 boys. There is a noticeable difference in their developmental stages.
My son was micro premie and he was a late bloomer when it came to crawling and walking. Everything else he did pretty much on time. He did struggle when I was teaching him how to sound out words and teaching him to read we started learning to read and write before going to kindergarten tho. He also had a tongue tie so it did play a part.
My oldest boy was army crawling at 3 months his twin sister didn’t start crawling until 11 months. He started walking at 12 months his twin sister not until 18 months. My youngest I believe was crawling at 6 months and walking at 12. If he’s premature then his development will be delayed also. Even if you get intervention doesn’t make you a bad mom. Some just need the extra help. My daughter was part of early intervention for walking. She just wasn’t ready yet. I felt bad because I was a infant toddler teacher. I knew how to get her to walk and i helped other children to walk but she just wouldn’t do it.
My baby started cruising before crawling. Babies go at their own pace. All 4 of mine are doing their own thing when they feel like it. I’m not worried about textbook stuff unless it’s affecting their health or it’s severely delayed.
My son crawled at 7 months but he would not pull himself to sit on his own. I was getting concerned then one night he randomly stood up kids will do it when they are good and ready
My son was 9 months but walked and daughter was 9 months and walked ,neither crawled until after walking