Cheryl Adams wrote:
>
> Would like to refer you all to the work of Robert J
> Doman, Jr (nephew to Glenn Doman of Doman-Delgado
> Method fame) who does a Child Development set of tapes
> through the National Hdqtrs for Child Development,
> Inc. in Huntsville, UT (there is probably a website
> for that now).  He isolates seven developmental tasks
> (and sub tasks) required for normal development and
> crawling and "floor time" is definetly among them!  My
> dh is a coach and sports official and has gotten
> children who could not run and dribble a ball doing
> crawling exercises and after a few weeks, they could
> run and dribble!  I always point out in my BF classes
> how important this bilateral stimulation is for babies
> brain development; and we are not talking about the
> food here!
> Cheryl Adams RN, CLE, ICCE

So it's the bi-lateral breastfeeding that is so important for co-ordination and
not necessarily crawling along the floor on all fours.  That probably explains
why the non-crawling babies of breastfeeding cultures don't have co-ordination
problems.  Perhaps then people who bottlefeed babies should be told of the
importance of alternating sides too.

Gitte
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BN Carney
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