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rolling baby!

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vict17 · 04/08/2004 07:09

I'm just looking for other people's experience and words of wisdom. My ds is 4 months ld and as he is my first baby evrything is a new experience for us both. He's just started to rol onto his front and can't get back over so last night me and dh took it in turns to roll him back when he cried. What I want to know is how long does it usually take for them to learn how to roll back and should we be leaving him to figure it out even though he's crying and keeping us awake (I try to leave him a bit longer in the day)? TIA

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vict17 · 04/08/2004 10:07

Nobody around to help me?! I think I've rolled him back over about 10 times so far this morning...

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marialuisa · 04/08/2004 10:30

DD started to roll over completely about 3 weeks after she got to the "stuck on her tummy" stage. She then started rolling obsessively, I'd go to the loo and find her stuck under tables when I got back . We did help her roll from her tummy to her back when she was only going halfway. Don't know if it helped, but it made her laugh.

marialuisa · 04/08/2004 10:31

I mean we'd sort of practice it, so would roll her when she wasn't stuck. Try and leave him on his tummy for a bit if you can when you're just pottering around though.

bbensley · 04/08/2004 10:46

My dd is nearly 7 months and she still hasnt sussed how to roll back. What she has learnt tho is how to put her head to one side so that she doesn't keep head butting the mat. She will go longer in her front than she did even goes to sleep on her front if I let her.

I have got a sleep positioner which stopped her rolling in her cot but she has got to strong for it now and can shuffle herself out of it. It worked well for a few weeks tho.

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vict17 · 04/08/2004 10:49

Thanks! I know it's just another phase but it's always nice to know roughly how long they will last

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californiagirl · 04/08/2004 19:34

It took DD three days to learn not to roll onto her front and get stuck (she started out behaving like she just couldn't help herself and on day 2 DH rolled her over 10 times before leaving for work). It took her another month to actually learn to roll back, and she still sometimes forgets (she's 5 months today and started rolling over at 3.5 months).

We encourage her by just rolling her partway, but I don't think it makes any difference.

mummytosteven · 04/08/2004 19:47

just have to say we are going thru exactly the same at the moment with DS (nearly 5 months)- tho even more bizarrely, he rolled from front to back at 5.5 weeks, so you'ld think he'd have realised by now he can do both ways. At night I would roll him back immediately once distressed - during the day I try to remember to leave him a bit on his tummy but often forget

shelbel · 05/08/2004 23:01

DS had a two day fest of rolling both ways at 3 months and then just stopped completely. At around 4 months he would sometimes roll both ways and sometimes get stuck as though he'd forget what he'd done before. Then he'd go quite a while without being interested in rolling. He's now sixth months and is able to roll both ways consistently. It seemed to take him a couple of weeks of him regularly trying and getting stuck on and off (and waking us in the night when he was stuck on his tummy) before it all seemed to click into place for him.

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