rolling over 5 months?

[stircrazymum]

My little one is five months old and hasn't started to roll over or show any signs of doing so. She is good in other ways, is sitting well supported and making lots of noises etc. Should I be worried? My health visitor is unconcerned and treats me like an anxious mother when I ask about it.
My babe was 3 weeks early following an emergency section and was very flat when born, I am anxious about her development because of this.

Reassure me please.

totally normal. all babies develop differently.
ds sat up at 5 months, but didn't roll over til after that. he eventually figured out rolling from tummy to back, but never got it the other way round

my ds only rolled over a few times in his first year and it was around 7-8 months old. I think he couldn't be bothered really.

ds didn't roll until after he crawled, he crawled at about 10/11 months. Hated being on his tummy.

My dd has only started rolling from her back to her tummy in the last couple of weeks. She's nearly 10 months. She still can't roll the other way though! They are all different - my nephew never rolled or crawled but started walking by 14 months. A health visitor told me they would only start to be concerned if an 18 month old was showing no signs of walking. My dd is the last of her peers to become mobile (and she's hardly that yet!) but she does other things ahead of babies the same age as her like waving goodbye to daddy in the mornings which she started doing in January! 2 of my friends spent the next 2 weeks teaching their babies to do the same when they saw her do it they were so worried about their dc's development!!! So please don't worry!! Enjoy the fact for now that you can put her down somewhere and know she can't go anywhere - you'll miss that once she's rolling and crawling all over the place.

Thanks for the reassurance. You know what it like when you have a friend whose baby does everything ages before yours & looks concerned when they see yours! I should learn to be more thick skinned!

My ds rolled at 12 weeks. Dd is 8 months now and still hasn't rolled. I understand how you feel when friends babies are doing things when yours aren't. They all develop at different rates, some people just forget that.

my ds started rolling at 4 months, dd however couldnt roll until well after she crawled at 9 months! its all normal really!!!

Mine didn't roll over until shortly before they crawled. I did read somewhere that c/section babies are often late rolling because not going through the birth canal doesn't stimulate a particular reflex, not sure how accurate that is. It sounds like she is doing lots of the other things that babies do at this stage so I would listen to your health visitor on this one.

My (c -sec) daughter could roll over at 4 mo; she did it earlier than others. But her sitting up wasn't earlier nor was the crawling. She just took to rolling for some bizarre reason and went everywhere that way. What you've described sounds totally normal. And don't worry about the HV, I'm sure my GP thinks I'm a paranoid mum.