Baby stopped rolling over?

[AprilBaby2025]

My daughter is 6 months and 10 days old. She learned to intentionally roll belly to back around 4.5 months. She did it a handful of times over the course of a couple weeks. Then stopped and moved onto rolling back to front. She did this for the first time just after 5 months. When she first learned, she was obsessed. Every time you lied her down, she would roll to her front in seconds. She did it constantly for like a week. Then she significantly slowed down and did it very intermittently for another week. And now hasn’t rolled at all in a few weeks. She has started rolling to her side again, but just refuses to roll all the way over. Even if there’s a toy she likes out of reach.

She is learning to sit and doing very well with that. Anyway, is this a concern? I heard skill regression is concerning. Did your babies do this?

I wouldn't look at it as regression, she's learnt a new skill - sitting up - and she's lost the novelty value with rolling. They shift attention and ability a lot at this age.

Yes they definitely shift from focusing on one skill to another. Not long after she’s mastered sitting she may move onto crawling and then walking.

I don’t think there’s anything to worry about. If you are still worried you ciukd alwsys do the 6 month Ages & Stages. Remember though that they’re not supposed to score in the white in every section. Scoring in the grey in one or two sections is perfectly acceptable.

Thanks! I did that questionnaire and she got in the white in all sections, and a “perfect” score on some of the sections.

Well she sounds as though she’s doing absolutely fine then (and totally delightful).

If you’re finding that your SM is making you worry about SM have you tried doing a few searches in google for things tgat are a bit more positive? I do this about once a month to try and train my algorithm