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A Unique Child: Practice in pictures - At a crawl

Crawling is an important physical stage in its own right which enables babies to break away from their carers for the first time, says Anne O'Connor.

Ko (9 months) is out in the park with his mum. They don't have a garden but mum takes him out somewhere every day. Mum's first language is Japanese and she also speaks English. Ko was asleep in his sling when they arrived and mum laid him down on the grass until he woke up naturally.

Ko has just begun crawling. After a few minutes of playing with mum and getting used to his surroundings in the park, he begins cautiously to move off and crawl around, stopping to focus on the grass and plucking at the daisies, as well as watching the people passing by.

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