Tummy Time

[Writerwannabe83]

Can I ask you all to share your stories about your babies and tummy time.

My DS is 16 weeks and admittedly I don't do it as often as I should but he just seems to hate it.

When I put him on his front he seems to just prefer to lie there with his face squished against the floor as opposed to trying to lift his head up.

Apart from tummy time he has excellent head control.

I was with my friend the other day whose baby is 6 weeks older than mine and when he was on his front he had his palms down, was pushing himself up, resting his weight on his elbows and his head was really high off the floor. He seemed to be doing this really easily and was enjoying it.

I have bought one of those Tummy Time cushions from Mamas and Papas but I can't seem to get on with it. DS looks very uncomfortable even he is on it.

Can I ask what your baby could do at 4 months of age in terms of tummy time? I'm worried my DS is lagging!!

And how often did you do it?

DS hated tummy time so we didn't do it I wouldn't force him to do anything that upset him unless it was necessary like nappy changing. He sat up propped at 3mo alone at 5mo crawled at 8mo walked at 11mo and is now a very strong active 2 yr old who can hold his head up so i'm fairly confident in saying it made no difference at all to him. If they like it great if they don't don't force it on them they will learn to do it how often do you see someone who can't hold their head up because they didn't have 'tummy time'?