Max is 11 months old and officially walking! In this episode, Meg and Cass discuss the importance of crawling as a developmental milestone for babies. Meg explains how crawling helps develop fine motor coordination, spatial abilities, and messaging across the brain. They also address the pressure to get children walking and how some cultures view crawling as primitive. Cass shares how they are encouraging Max to crawl as much as possible, even though he is starting to walk, and how he seems more confident on carpeted surfaces. The moms also briefly touch on upcoming gross motor milestones such as running, jumping, and skipping. They then move on to talk about Max's progress in verbal development. He's babbling away, saying 'mama' and 'dada' and he also understands the word 'no' although his developing independence also means he's pushing some boundaries. Listen for all of this and more.