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7 month old not rolling over and still refuses tummy time.

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Kitchendiva80 · 13/04/2012 10:17

My 7 month old is a happy chilled out munchkin unless she's been put on her tummy. Then she screams like a banshee or just mashed her face into her playmat. She is also showing no interest in rolling over. She'll sometimes flip her hips and legs over to side but her back is still flat on floor ifyswim. She has great head and neck control. She was trying to lift it at a few days old. The midwives were all saying she had amazing head and neck control for a newborn. She has been sitting up with support from just about 5 months and now sits great. Unless she sneezes or gets to excited about something. She leans forward or to side to try and reach things and can right herself a lot of the time. But just showing no interest in moving.

The tummy time has always been a bit of an issue because she was constipated pretty much since day 1. So think lying on her tummy was sore then but that's been sorted now.

HV keeps saying not to worry it will come and that some babies go straight to walking. Mil say dh was the same. When he did move it was the bum shuffle and didn't walk til 14 months. I have 2 friends whose babies are same age - give or take week - they are crawling, flipping themselves over. Another friend's baby is 1 and 1/2 months younger and Is practically doing acrobatics on her mat. I know you shouldn't compare babies and they are all different but sometimes I feel like what am I doing wrong? Am I failing her in some way?
I could honestly cry.

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Kitchendiva80 · 13/04/2012 10:59

Thank you just feel so down about it sometimes. I know I'm a neurotic first time mum I think it's because in other areas of my life I am a total control freak.

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LoonyRationalist · 13/04/2012 11:19

Dd1 hated tummy time. She loved sitting and we just gave her lots of practise (with cushions behind her) lots of toys out to reach for things. Shegot progressively better at reaching and walking herself back to sitting with her hands iyswim. She eventually got to hands and knees this way and rolled over and crawled on the same day at about 10.5 months. She was never a crawler though, it was a means to get her to furniture etc to pull herself to standing.
She always wanted to walk and walked just after she was 1.

I remember stressing alot but it really wasn't warranted I promised. She is 5 1/2 now and I wish she would sit still a bit!!

cairnterrier · 13/04/2012 11:24

DS rolled over twice on the same day ( about 6 months as I remember) then not again for a good month. He didn't crawl until at least 11 months and walked at 17 months. Enjoy the chance to be able to sit still and drink your tea in peace whilst watching your friends running around after their DCs!

dreamingbohemian · 13/04/2012 11:31

My DS was exactly the same. Don't worry!!

Then he started crawling and rolling at 9 months, was walking at 12 months.

A friend of mine's daughter never crawled, she did bum shuffling until she started walking at maybe 17 months or so.

Please don't stress yourself out trying to make her roll over or crawl or anything, she'll do it when she's ready.

I'd try to see this as a good test for starting to not be bothered about what other DC are doing. You can't keep worrying about how your DD stacks up against others, you will just drive both of you bonkers.

ipswichwitch · 13/04/2012 11:37

DS is 6 mo and hate tummy time too. he can lift his head (have seen him do it!!), and did so quite early on but seems to prefer screaming blue murder with his face on the floor when he's on his tummy. i did worry for a wee while when i saw my friends DD whos 4 n half mo, on her tummy doing mini push-ups with head held high. now, just tell myself all babies are different and he'll either get the hang of it, or just skip a stage completely.
he does get about by lifting legs in the air, rolling onto side, straightening out then repeat. seen him go from his play mat almost to kitchen door this way! he may be a bum shuffler like his mum :)

tiddleypompom · 13/04/2012 11:39

Great advice above - your dd sounds lovely & will roll if and when she wants! I also have a less than mobile 6.5 month old - and am enjoying being able to make a cuppa without putting him behind bars :o

I recently bought a sort of hard sponge mat (jigsaw pieces with alphabet from amazon) however, and he is much more able to move around it than he was on his rug, which as mentioned above, made him lazy Wink

dreamingbohemian · 13/04/2012 11:41

I actually miss the days when I could plonk DS on the floor for five minutes and he would still be there when I came back... Smile

Ultrasonic · 13/04/2012 11:44

Please don't cry! I promise in a few months you'll wonder why you even worried.
My ds rolled for the first time at the grand old age of nearly 8 months in front of several of my husbands extended family, not ten minutes after I uttered the words "we are a bit worried because he hasn't rolled yet"
Confused
It will happen. There is nothing wrong.
I Promise Smile

savoycabbage · 13/04/2012 11:44

My dd was eight months, nearly nine when she rolled over. She's 8 now and there's not a jot wrong with her.

Dd2 walked at nine months!

Kitchendiva80 · 13/04/2012 11:57

Thanks so much I do feel better. I tend to get myself in a flap about things. I have to keep telling myself it's not what she should do but what she might do. My hv said they'd only be cI'm just such a stresser. Hubby keeps saying I'm going to make myself ill. He's so chilled about it all.

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Kitchendiva80 · 13/04/2012 11:59

Hit post by mistake - touchscreens! I was trying to add my hv has said they'd only be worried if she wasn't moving at all.

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Kitchendiva80 · 13/04/2012 12:02

Ultrasonic typical! Grin My dd sits wonderfully at home but then for some reason at her baby sensory class refuses I'm like she does it at home honest.

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MyDogShitsShoes · 13/04/2012 12:07

My ds is just 8 months. He's been rolling over for months, actually prefers to be face down at all times beit playing or sleeping. He is very close to crawling and has amazing strength in his neck and.arms.

He refuses to sit up. At all, ever. Will not bend in the middle for any reason. Will only sit if forced to by being put in a chair.

He protests by "planking". I have to forcibly fold him to get him in.

Babies are weird. Fact.

tiddleypompom · 13/04/2012 12:12

Planking :o

We do this to get him in his car seat.

MyDogShitsShoes · 13/04/2012 12:20

Oh, it pisses me off!

During the recent spell of summer I took him to the park every day. All around us were babies clearly far younger than ds having a lovely time sitting on their rugs having a picnic and playing with a couple of toys.

Mine was flinging himself around like a fish out of water.

BlackOutTheSun · 13/04/2012 12:21

please don't worry, my dd never did tummy time (reflux=tummy time=everywhere covered in sick) I think dd only rolled over about 3 times in total, she hated it.

My DN was more then happy just to stay on a play mat until he was about 20ish months, wouldn't sit up unaided, pull himself up, no crawing, nothing. My sister was worried sick until one day she just decided he was going to get up and started walking. He is 9 now and you wouldn't know!

She is 13 months now and walking, so my advice would be enjoy making all those cups of tea while safe in the knowledge in that your dd is still in the same place you left her. Grin

MyDogShitsShoes · 13/04/2012 12:34

Yy, Defo puketastic.

Ds doesn't have reflux but full bottle+immediate rolling = little drops of sick fricking everywhere Angry

He never learns! He's also a stealth puker so you have to be in full view of his mouth at all times. Turn away and he'll instantly have his fingers in vom and be staring at them in wonder! If you're lucky he'll plink his face down in the middle of it to.

Don't think I need to worry too much about putting him on the g&t register yet.

ipswichwitch · 13/04/2012 14:09

[grin]@stealth puker
DS does this during tummy time, goes face down in it then screams like he's being murdered. sure the neighbours think i spend all day sticking pins in him

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