Video taken last when my baby Timothy Kobe started to somehow turn sideways and do a mini-crawl, I checked on Google when does baby start to crawl and found out that babies usually between the ages of 6 and 10 months. We were all surprised by this since Kobe is just turning 4 months old this 24th of June.

We are all happy to see this milestones our Kobe's part. Hopefully, he'll just grow healthy and free from all diseases.






Here's the article taken from http://www.babycenter.com:

Crawling

Crawling is your baby's first method of getting around efficiently on his own. In the traditional crawl, he'll start by learning to balance on his hands and knees. Then he'll figure out how to move forward and backward by pushing off with his knees. At the same time, he'll be strengthening the muscles that will soon enable him to walk.

When it develops

Most babies learn to crawl between the ages of 6 and 10 months. Your baby may opt for another method of locomotion around this time, though — like bottom shuffling (scooting around on his bottom, using a hand behind and a foot in front to propel himself), slithering on his stomach, or rolling across the room. Some babies skip crawling altogether and move directly to pulling up, standing, and walking. Since the "Back to Sleep" campaign was initiated in 1994, more babies seem to be crawling later or skipping it completely. (The campaign aims to reduce the risk of SIDS by encouraging parents to put babies to sleep on their back.) Don't worry about his style; it's getting mobile that's important, no matter how your baby does it.

How it develops

Your baby will likely start crawling soon after he's able to sit well without support (probably by the time he's 6 or 7 months old). After this point, he can hold his head up to look around, and his arm, leg, and back muscles are strong enough to keep him from falling on the floor when he gets up on his hands and knees.

Your baby will gradually (over a couple of months) learn to move confidently from a sitting position to being on all fours, and he'll soon realize he can rock back and forth when his limbs are straight and his trunk is parallel to the floor.

Somewhere around 9 or 10 months, he'll figure out that pushing off with his knees gives him just the boost he needs to go mobile. As he gains proficiency, he'll learn to go from a crawling position back into a sitting position. He'll also master the advanced technique that pediatrician William Sears calls "cross-crawling" — moving one arm and the opposite leg together when he moves forward, rather than using an arm and a leg from the same side. After that, practice makes perfect. Look for him to be a really competent crawler by the time he's a year old.

What's next

After your baby has mastered crawling, the only thing between him and complete mobility is learning to walk. To that end, he'll soon begin pulling himself up on everything he can reach, whether it's the coffee table or Grandma's leg. Once he gets the feel of balancing on his legs, he'll be ready to stand on his own and cruise while holding onto furniture. Then it's just a matter of time until he's walking, running, jumping, and leaping.





Last Saturday, we went to see the pediatrician of my baby Timothy Kobe to have his scheduled Prevenar Vaccine. So what is Prevenar Vaccine? I admit that I don’t know this kind of vaccine, so I decided to search Google and look for the meaning of this shot.

Here is the meaning of this serum that was given to my baby.

*Prevenar is a pneumococcal vaccine that contains extracts from seven of the most common types of Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria. These bacteria are responsible for causing invasive diseases such as pneumonia, blood poisoning and meningitis. The vaccine works by provoking the body's immune response to the bacteria, without causing the diseases.



When the body is exposed to foreign organisms, such as bacteria and viruses, the immune system produces antibodies against them. Antibodies help the body recognizes and kill the foreign organisms. They then remain in the body to help protect the body against future infections with the same organism. This is known as active immunity.

The immune system produces different antibodies for each foreign organism it encounters. This establishes a pool of antibodies that helps protect the body from various different diseases.
Vaccines contain extracts or inactivated forms of bacteria or viruses that cause disease. These altered forms of the organisms stimulate the immune system to produce antibodies against them, but don't actually cause disease themselves. The antibodies produced remain in the body so that if the organism is encountered naturally, the immune system can recognize it and attack it, thus preventing it from causing disease.

Each bacteria or virus stimulates the immune system to produce a specific type of antibody. This means that different vaccines are needed to prevent different diseases.

Prevenar contains inactivated extracts from seven of the most common types of Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria. It stimulates the immune system to produce antibodies against these bacteria and thus is given to prevent the diseases that they can cause.

This pneumococcal vaccine is now part of the childhood immunization schedule. This vaccine will usually be given as three doses, at two, four and thirteen months of age.

Hopefully my new born infant will be safe from all these foreign elements that might attack his immune system and that this pricey injection will work and be able to help my baby grow as a healthy toddler.

For first time parents like Katrine and I, we are very cautious about our son’s health so we make sure that everything is doing good, fortunately we are very pleased that our tot is growing fast and in good physical shape, he’s actually overweight for his age at 3 months but the doctor said its fine and we have nothing to worry about.

*Definition of Prevenar Vaccine came from this source.