Pre-Crawling Home Exercise - Side Sitting and Reaching

Side sitting and reaching exercises encourage your baby to develop balance, strength, and coordination. These movements support core stability, arm and shoulder mobility, and cross-body coordination—all of which are essential for milestones like crawling, pulling up, and walking. At Nomad Chiropractic in Sydney, we teach parents gentle, play-based exercises that complement chiropractic care and encourage healthy development.

Crossing the Midline Home Exercise
- Lie Baby on their back
- Hold left hand and right foot — bring them to the centre and tap
- Repeat several time… stretch out arm and leg and then bring them back together
- Swap sides
- Have fun!!

Baby Lateral Bend Stretch (Neck tension release)

- This can be useful for babies with neck rotation issues.
- Can be associated with feeding issues, general discomfort, milestone help, torticollis
- Reach out if you need help!

What’s the “guppy” stretch?
A technique to improve neck and tongue mobility in infants, particularly those with breastfeeding or oral function issues. It might helps promote neck extension and motor development.
Join Kristin as she demonstrates how to do this at home.

Baby Torticollis Home Exercises
(Note: Torticollis is a symptom not a diagnosis - we recommend you have your baby assessed to find the cause.)
- Side-lying stretch
- Football hold shoulder rotations
- Intentional cuddles
- Positional advice
- Get checked!