So after months of inquiring and Googling about what happens first, crawling or sitting, I gave up and decided to cultivate some patience to watch it myself. Keeping my calm and living with the suspense since he rolled over, finally my little man sat last week. The exact day is difficult to tell because it's a process and he is still discovering new ways to park his butt and perfecting his skill while trying to catch up a new one.
But the patience and curiosity got me to understand a completely forgotten side of human anatomy. Everything is a slow and hardwork demanding process. He did not just lay on his tummy till the day he was supposed to sit. He kept working every muscle required for the act and the body balance required. He would pull both his knees in, in tummy down position and try to push himself forward to which everyone would say, he won't sit or crawl, he will drag himself on his tummy and then start walking. I would find it a proud thing but now I feel, how no one ever observed the in-between stages of development or were they so insignificant to be mentioned. I laid myself on tummy and got up to sitting position in slow motion many a times to understand and notice the in-between stages and I'm seriously amazed at a baby's understanding of anatomy and our mind's ability to discard the important yet unused information.
To sum the process up, after flipping over, he did not rest or celebrate the achievement. But he went to roll over from both sides till he perfected it (practicing even in sleep). Then the knees pulling in and dragging stage came, that ensured him of the leg movements he would require. Then the push ups for his little arms and chest to gain strength to hold up the body weight. I thought here, that's it, now he is going to crawl anytime. But he knew his steps and anatomy lessons well enough. He rocked back and forth while in push up position. That's a funny looking stage. I thought he is just having fun but he was strengthening his back in sort of cat-cow yoga pose. Thus, he became stable on his fours. It's crawling, I again thought to myself. But instead of taking crawl steps he was trying to balance in the position by lifting one hand in air at a time. And then I thought maybe everyone is right, he will stand up now. Nah... I realize now that it was a step to enable himself to maneuver his torso when time comes. Next was the cutest stage which I was never able to video graph, always being enchanted by its cuteness. He was moving his cute round chubby hips in circles, sometimes taking to extreme right and sometimes swaying to the extreme left. I thought I got a dancer in the house but it was still the wait-for-it moment. The day he managed to sit in an upright position the whole months of workout struck me as a jigsaw puzzle. And the very same day he took his first crawling steps also.
Eureka... Eureka... Eureka...
I always thought, there is only one shot to everything. But here I learnt, life itself gives a second chance to live consciously. To learn, re-learn and unlearn everything with your child.
P. S. - The credits for my son's successful sitting and crawling expeditions goes to my fur child. He is the one motivation for my son to get moving faster. Also now the very next week of two big milestones, he is trying to stand up to get hold of his furry brother.
But the patience and curiosity got me to understand a completely forgotten side of human anatomy. Everything is a slow and hardwork demanding process. He did not just lay on his tummy till the day he was supposed to sit. He kept working every muscle required for the act and the body balance required. He would pull both his knees in, in tummy down position and try to push himself forward to which everyone would say, he won't sit or crawl, he will drag himself on his tummy and then start walking. I would find it a proud thing but now I feel, how no one ever observed the in-between stages of development or were they so insignificant to be mentioned. I laid myself on tummy and got up to sitting position in slow motion many a times to understand and notice the in-between stages and I'm seriously amazed at a baby's understanding of anatomy and our mind's ability to discard the important yet unused information.
To sum the process up, after flipping over, he did not rest or celebrate the achievement. But he went to roll over from both sides till he perfected it (practicing even in sleep). Then the knees pulling in and dragging stage came, that ensured him of the leg movements he would require. Then the push ups for his little arms and chest to gain strength to hold up the body weight. I thought here, that's it, now he is going to crawl anytime. But he knew his steps and anatomy lessons well enough. He rocked back and forth while in push up position. That's a funny looking stage. I thought he is just having fun but he was strengthening his back in sort of cat-cow yoga pose. Thus, he became stable on his fours. It's crawling, I again thought to myself. But instead of taking crawl steps he was trying to balance in the position by lifting one hand in air at a time. And then I thought maybe everyone is right, he will stand up now. Nah... I realize now that it was a step to enable himself to maneuver his torso when time comes. Next was the cutest stage which I was never able to video graph, always being enchanted by its cuteness. He was moving his cute round chubby hips in circles, sometimes taking to extreme right and sometimes swaying to the extreme left. I thought I got a dancer in the house but it was still the wait-for-it moment. The day he managed to sit in an upright position the whole months of workout struck me as a jigsaw puzzle. And the very same day he took his first crawling steps also.
Eureka... Eureka... Eureka...
I always thought, there is only one shot to everything. But here I learnt, life itself gives a second chance to live consciously. To learn, re-learn and unlearn everything with your child.
P. S. - The credits for my son's successful sitting and crawling expeditions goes to my fur child. He is the one motivation for my son to get moving faster. Also now the very next week of two big milestones, he is trying to stand up to get hold of his furry brother.
