Creeper Crawlers is an innovative new suit that encourages babies to crawl.
‘Less slipping, more gripping’ is the Creeper Crawler’s objective. The one-piece crawl-suit provides traction on modern wooden and tile floors to increase the chance that babies will crawl successfully. Made from 100% soft natural cotton, the suit was developed and tested with a group of parents and babies to identify the best non-intrusive grip.
To date, all of the babies using Creeper Crawlers have crawled more happily, more successfully, and for longer, and outcome that the creator ‘mumtrepreneur’ Ollwyn Moran, believes can actually help reduce the incidence of learning and behavioural difficulties as children grow.
Ollwyn, a Secondary School Science Teacher and a Neurological Developmental Therapist, says “Carpets have been replaced by wooden and tiled floors, which are much healthier for the respiratory system, but provide absolutely no traction for a baby trying to get a grip on the floor to move forward”.
Ollwyn continues “Creeper Crawlers is a simple solution to encouraging crawling, particularly where tile or wood dominates the household flooring. Babies slip, slide, get frustrated and then give up on crawling; maybe resorting to bum-shuffling or going straight to walking, thereby missing out on a significant stage of brain/neurological development which can later present as mild learning difficulties and behavioural problems”.
In 2012, while studying for her Masters in Education in NUI Maynooth, Ollwyn entered and won the Student Entrepreneur Competition with the crawl suit with grips, a concept she originally thought about when her first child had difficulties crawling on wooden floors. She went on to win Business Parent of the Year in November.
Creeper Crawlers are available in three colours, cream, pink, and blue, in sizes 6-9 months and 9-12 months. These the practical crawl-suits can be ordered to deliver to the UK from at www.creepercrawlers.com
