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tummy time

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smerchant · 20/12/2007 15:24

Sorry to sound stupid but i dont know anything about tummy time.I am googling and have found that i should be doing it when my baby was 2 months old. Can anyone please explain me. Have i done something wrong by not doing it. My baby is 3.5 months. Should i start straightaway?

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Coolchristmasfairy · 20/12/2007 17:32

The idea with allowing a baby to spend some time on his tummy is so that you encourage him to start using his neck muscles etc to hold up his head, rolling over etc. It shouldn't be too long (IIRC about 5mins a day) - you haven't done anything wrong. It's just one of those things you do like putting putting toys just out of reach to encourage them to stretch and stuff like that.

TwinklyfLightAttendant · 20/12/2007 17:37

Don't worry, I didn't bother, they will learn to do it anyway, it is a creation of health visitors imo to make you feel even more inadequate
Loads of babies really hate it anyway. You could try it for a few seconds, but pick him up straight away if he seems uncomfortable.

Tommy · 20/12/2007 17:45

don't worry about it. You're probably doing it a bit anyway - do you or your partner ever sit and put the baby on your chest and look at him/her? S/he will be lifting their head and looking at you then - it's the same thing

meepingaroundthechristmastree · 20/12/2007 17:46

my dd hated hated hated hated it - full on hysterics each time I tried! She's now 5 months and whilst still not a huge fan, is happy on her tummy with her head lifted high . I read a thread about this before and they suggested doing tummy time over your knees - and also starting with a rolled up muslin under their chest so that their head isn't mushed into the floor.

blueshoes · 20/12/2007 17:52

Ignore it. It is not a developmental race. Your baby will hold his head up, roll over, sit up, crawl and walk, whether or not you give him tummy time. In fact, you couldn't possibly hold him back, hth.

systemsaddict · 20/12/2007 19:18

Mine hated, hated, hated it so we didn't bother - he seems fine! Dp was also told we needed to 'teach him to crawl', which really worried him (cos we weren't doing), till I pointed out the severe lack of 18 year olds still lying on their backs under their baby gyms because their parents didn't teach them to crawl ...

Spink · 20/12/2007 19:30

ds was another one who hated it - til he was about 6 months, anyway. He then started to LOVE rolling and began to roll onto his tum more and more, and stay there. Praps he liked it when realised he has control - he chooses to go there and can choose when to sit up or roll back or crawl..
don't worry, though, seems that it's not uncommon

takefu · 20/12/2007 23:08

Mine hated it too but what I didn't realize was that we were always laying with DD on our chests, so she was getting 'tummy time'of a sort anyway. Even with me sitting up, and her leaning on my chest, she was practicing lifting her head to look at me.

takefu · 20/12/2007 23:09

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