Baby escaping tummy time by rolling - problem?

[CoalCraft]

DD (nearly 5 months adjusted) has just learned to roll from front to back.

This is lovely of course, but the problem is that now, as soon as she's placed in her tummy, she rolls over! She has always hated tummy time, would only tolerate it for a maximum of 5-10 mins before getting too upset to continue, so I'm not surprised she escapes it as soon as she can, but obviously it means prolonged tummy time is now pretty much impossible.

My question is does this matter? She has no problems with her head control or muscle tone generally so I'd like to think she doesn't really need tummy time as much anymore, but obviously don't want her development to slow.

She hasn't made much progress with rolling the other way. Kicks and twists hasn't gotten far.

My first screamed if I put her down on the floor for the first nine months so she never really did tummy time. She pretty much went straight to walking at 11 months.
I think tummy time is recommended but not an absolute requirement.

Once baby can keep their head up and roll I’m pretty sure tummy time isn’t needed any more. I had a refluxy baby who couldn’t stand tummy time but at 10 months she now sleeps on her tummy! Strange babies....

If she hates tummy time and is strong enough to get out of it for herself, you don't need to worry. Shows resourcefulness too!

If she hates tummy time and is strong enough to get out of it for herself, you don't need to worry

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Thanks all! I won't worry about it too much then :)

I’ve never heard of tummy time. Whatever it is, it sounds like your DD is fine without it.

If it helps, tummy time wasn't a 'thing' when my DC were born. They're now 22 and 21, over 6ft and don't have any problems! Your LO will be fine OP.

@OldTinHat

Interesting, I guess I figured that tummy time became a 'thing' at around the same time as safe sleep/back to sleep since babies started spending a lot less time on their bellies at that point, but maybe not?

Tummy time isn't just lying on their tummy on the floor, it's any time not lying on their back.

DD wasn't interested at all in lying on the floor, but she often lied on my chest looking at me while I sat on the sofa, or was in the sling while I did stuff/went out. All of that counts as 'tummy time'

Mine are 19 and nearly 17 - tummy time was not a thing, but definitely put them to sleep on their backs.

Both progressed with all their milestones - eldest walked at 11 months.

Isn't it amazing how much changes regarding baby rearing over such a small space of time? My boys started to be weaned on baby rice at 12 weeks which I understand is now six months? And, when I was born, I was put to sleep on my front in a cot in my own room from day one (vintage 70s baby here!). No baby monitors. My mum was born in December of the notorious 'big freeze' of 1947, my grandmother was told to wrap her up, pop her in the pram and leave her outside. Sounds unbelievable but we're all here to tell the tale!

Didn't know that about tummy time being anything but lying down. Very interesting. I shall be prepared for when/if I become a grandparent!

@OldTinHat after back to back sleeping was brought in there was a massive reduction in cot death. Although most people lived to tell the tale many babies didn’t.

Mine hated tummy time so much that I gave up. They are completely normal now. On the uncoordinated side, but so are we, so blame genetics.

Just to follow up, my first just wanted to go straight to standing. She was standing with furniture at 5 months, holding hands walking at 8 months and walking independently at 11 months.
She didn’t bother with the faff of tummy time 😉

Mine are 19 and nearly 17 - tummy time was not a thing, but definitely put them to sleep on their backs

DS is 17 tummy time was definately a thing.

Yes I remember tummy time bring a thing and my dd is 18.
I thought it was so babies strengthen their neck muscles so can lift their head and ultimately be able to roll over and crawl.

I never heard of 'tummy time' when mine were small. I put them down on their backs on the playmat and they could roll and do what they wanted.

They hadn't even invented 'tummy time' when mine were babies.

It absolutely doesn't matter. Especially if she hates it anyway.

@Rummikub

Yes I remember tummy time bring a thing and my dd is 18. I thought it was so babies strengthen their neck muscles so can lift their head and ultimately be able to roll over and crawl.

As if all those billions of humans going back hundreds of thousands of years never learned how to roll over and crawl of their own accord!!

As if all those billions of humans going back hundreds of thousands of years never learned how to roll over and crawl of their own accord!!

The real problem is long hours spent in car seats/ bouncers/ walkers rather than lying in roomy prams or being carried in arms or held on laps.

www.gosh.nhs.uk/conditions-and-treatments/conditions-we-treat/positional-plagiocephaly/

The whole point of tummy time is to give babies a chance to learn various prone skills, like rolling over. I'd say your yummy time I'd looking very successful