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.

Seated Baby Shoulder / Arm Stretches:

• Balance out fascial tension

• Improve Shoulder range of motion

• Practice sitting being supported between your legs!

Shoulder Girdle Tension - Home Exercises
Sometimes these exercises can assist with:
- comfort in tummy time
- difficulty rolling both ways
- difficulty crawling
- babies with head rotational/breast preferences,
- tension associated with tongue ties
- body in balance!

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!

Tummy time for Vestibular Priming - important for all babies :)
Join Chiro Karli as she takes you through the PHYSIO BALL EDITION!
- prone rocking (on tummy)
- supine rocking (on back)
- seated bounces

We all know it can be difficult to build tummy time exercises into your day so Chiro Karli of Nomad Chiro in Mosman has put together a few tips that might help!
- legs climbs
- aeroplane
- over your lap
- football holds
- after a nappy change chat!

Join Chiro Karli as she takes demonstrates:
- Bicycle legs
- Tummy massage and
- the football hold
3 potential tools to help you and your windy baby.