Eli's 4 1/2 months already(!) and he crawls. Not quickly mind you, but he eventually gets where he is going, sort of like a snail. Butt high in the air, slinking along, and not terribly happy about the process as much as the destination.
Our doctor told us that babies are smarter than you think they are. I thought I was heeding his advice perfectly until last night. I had just assumed (key mistake) that his attempts at crawling were in somewhat random directions.
We had been putting him to bed in a crib at night, and he would make his way over the course of the night into the corner. It looked uncomfortable with the head pressed up against the side, so we would move him back to the center. But he would find he kept finding his way back to the corner.
Yesterday when putting him in the crib for a nap, I decided to experiment and just start him in the corner. He went to sleep very quickly.
OK, but maybe that is because he had nowhere to go. So last night we tried again to start him in the corner. He has taken to going to sleep between 6:30-7:30 and waking up around 12:30-1:30 to cry/"crankle" for a while (30-45min) only to fall back asleep for several more hours.
He woke up last night around 1:10AM. I go in there and he is along the top edge of the crib, faced in the other direction, butt up, about 1/3 of the way to the other corner. It really looked like he was making his way from one corner to the other, deliberately.
So I picked him up and put him where he seemed like he wanted to go. And it worked!
