tips to encourage crawling: Hands and knees: Help your baby learn the feeling of being on all fours while bearing weight on their hands and knees and strengthening their core: Place them on their belly over one of your legs, so both their hands and knees are touching the floor. Gently rock them back and forth.Place your baby on all fours by gently lifting their hips off the floor and back toward their heels. If they don’t bear weight through their arms, they aren’t quite ready for this. If they