6 months old baby not reaching for toys while on tummy.

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Hi all 🙂
I have a 6 months old baby boy who is not interested in reaching for toys while on tummy. He does reach and hold a toys when he is on his back. He puts everything in his mouth cuz he's teething. He transfer the toy from one hand to the other and can hold 2 toys (one at each hand) at the same time. He track the toy with his eyes when I move it in front of him. He just started turning from back to front but not from front to back yet except for a couple of times when he just lost balance.
I am worried sick and I don't know how to get his attention on the toys and help him reach. I got him to the doctor and they gave me a few exercises but it's been a month and nothing is helping. I just found out he has a hypermetropia and I think maybe he is not interested as he is not seeing the toys very well.
I know you cannot solve my problems but I just need some courage. Do you think he cannot reach for toys on tummy at 6 months cuz he is just not interested? I don't know what to think anymore. Every advice will be appreciated.❤️

My baby is similar. Reaches on his back or sitting (with support) but when put on his tummy he just sucks his hands. He hasnt rolled back to front yet, but rolls the other way so hard to make him do tummy time. He always hated being on his tummy so hasnt had much practice which I think affects this. I wouldn't worry too much and just keep giving him the chance - will probably just suddenly start doing it one day.

What sort of things are you putting in front of him OP? If he’s long sighted it may need to be something with high contrast or be noisy before it grabs his attention.

Try not to worry too much though. I nearly drove myself batty with DS as he had no interest in crawling. He is now a very well rounded teen, with no obvious problems, well, there is the long sightedness, but he has glasses for that now

Hi guys,
Cdl84 - thanks for sharing. My son doesn't like tummy time as well but he hasn't rolled from front to back. It's my first child and I am having a hard time listening him crying, maybe that's a problem cus some specialists tell me leave him cry and try to find his way without my help. I will try to work on that note.
JiltedJohnsJulie - I have tried with different toys but still not interested. He sees them for a few seconds and then turn his head the other way and looking at through the room. I think that I'll try with some objects from the everyday life like spoon, a cup etc. We just got him glasses but he's not a fan of putting something on his head. Maybe it will take him a few days to get used to them and the difference of the images he's seeing.

Hoping everything will turn out for the best

Tummy time was a nightmare with my DD. I tried everything I could think of to get her to do it! But as she hated it so much, there was no way she’d ever reach for toys. She never did crawl, she walked first.

Looking back now she’s 3.5, it wasn’t something to stress about as much as I did, and I hope that you can be more relaxed than I was! All her other milestones were fine and she’s a lively and healthy girl now. She’s fine on the vast majority of physical activities - she can ride a balance bike as well as expected for her age, cycle a tricycle etc. Her fine motor control is great, she loves drawing/writing her name etc. So no negative impact on anything particularly worrying. The only thing that I have noticed - she isn’t very good at hanging from monkey bars. Maybe if she’d tolerated tummy time better and done lots of crawling she would have ended up with stronger hands/grip.

I feel like the best thing to do is to try and keep doing as much tummy time as he will reasonably tolerate, but don’t worry if he’s reaching. If he’ll look at a mirror or you blowing bubbles or anything then he is gaining benefit from doing it. If he is reaching for toys in other positions, he is still learning those skills. Good luck, OP.