Lifting head and tummy time

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My lo is 14 weeks and can hold his head up when in my arms but won't push himself up during tummy time. He just lays there crying. By 1 month he should have been able to according to everything I read. Should I be worried?

@QueenofmyPrinces - so he rolls front to back and has full/excellent head control and can sit independently for about 5 mins.
I’ve seen him push up to roll but my concern is why he gets distressed on his front after about 5 mins, and why he’s not pushing up yet.
I’m worried about underlining issues.

I’ve seen him push up to roll but my concern is why he gets distressed on his front after about 5 mins

So from lying on his front he will push himself up so he can roll over?

But he just doesn’t like lying on his front?

My first only ever did sling or on a person tummy time. Also figured out rolling front to back very quickly, didn't roll back to front, tummy time did not happen once she could roll off her tummy. Rolled to get around for a while until she sussed crawling.

She was winning sports day races at preschool as the youngest in the year, so no effect.

She was refluxy, worst day was 10 full outfit changes for her, 4 for me and 1 for DH, so spent a lot of time in the sling!

Nonsense. When did all this 'tummy time' I read about on here, start? When I had mine we let babies develop naturally and didn't have names for perfectly ordinary things like putting a baby on its front for a while.

If your baby cries, he doesn't like it so don't do it. There are no hard and fast rules, he'll be rolling over before you know it. I would take nothing a health visitor says seriously, a combination of letting your baby lead and following your instincts is best.

Queenofmyprinces said: "Just put the books down* and let your baby do things in their own time."

She expressed in one sentence what I took more than one paragraph to do! I would just add "..and ignore the HV.

@QueenofmyPrinces yeah so he pushes up in order to roll but won’t hold the push up if you see what I mean?

Stop reading stuff and just relax. Cuddle your baby

@randomsabreuse - that’s good to hear, thanks!

@firstimemamma - I am honestly trying to relax about it, just a bit worried.

@jessstan1 - I get what you’re saying but it’s a bit nerve wracking as a FTM whose baby doesn’t ike being on their front when the majority of other babies do and you’ve got lots of articles saying he should be up on his hands by now.

My guess is that he’s got far more fun things to do like pushing himself up so he can roll over, rather than just pushing himself up and staying there for no reason

You know he’s got the arm strength to push himself up and he has normal head control so I really wouldn’t worry yourself just because he would rather roll over than lie on his stomach.

I actually think the position of them being on their front with their pelvis and legs on the floor whilst pushing themselves up on their palms must be incredibly uncomfortable on their back and chest.

Try not to worry OP.

I doubt ‘tummy time’ was even a thing 20 years ago and I imagine the majority of babies grew up just fine without having done it as a set exercise as dictated by books.

@QueenofmyPrinces - thank you!

I wholeheartedly agree with QueenofmyPrinces.