Baby hates tummy time but can almost sit up

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Can I stop forcing tummy time now? Or is it a big red flag if she misses out rolling? She's 5mo.

Definitely don't force it. Allow plenty of floor time and free movement and if she's in a sling, also great, a new one for me second time round.

I think tummy time is overrated. Both of mine hated it so I didnt bother. They are now strapping teenagers. Just stop. It's not vital to development.

My mum would say we never had tummy time when you were young.
I’ve never forced it. Toddler dd just fine and baby ds is heading the same way.

Lots of babies don't like it and they're fine.

It's funny back in the 80's we were specifically told to put our babies on their tummies to sleep to avoid sids. Now it is the opposite.
I think it strengthens their necks in the long run, I remember DS being able to hold his head up very early and rolled very early too. All of his other milestones were average so I don't think it makes any difference in the long term. Once he could walk he was off and then started climbing and then nothing in the house was safe.

Mine hated it too. Carrying them upright helps them build neck muscles. The big push for tummy time is to stop people leaving babies lying down on their back all day

DS hated it and wouldn’t do more than a few seconds without getting really distressed and he sat up at 4.5 months.
DD also hates it so I don’t force it

Oh God...what is tummy time?! Never heard of it, my DC never had it..

Mine hated tummy time and didn't roll but was sitting up rock solid at 5 months and didn't need to.
He's a strapping 21 year old now. Don't worry about it.

Never did it with mine and they never had any issues.

Mine hated it, so we didn't do it, at 8 & 10 you'd never know! (at 1 & 3 you'd still never have known!)

There was no such thing as tummy time when I had my three and they have grown up fine and healthy.

It's a gimmick. Ignore it. Millions of babies did just fine without ever being forced onto their tummies when they didn't want to.

Life will strengthen their neck muscles and every other muscle going.

No need for "tummy time" - it is just yet another guilt trip for parents and is total nonsense.

Agh there is so much online isn't there about how essential tummy time is to integrating primitive reflexes and how if they never roll or crawl etc they will have lifelong motor planning issues. It's exhausting and frightening for parents. Anyway my 6 month old hates it so we just do a few mins each day, He much prefers sitting and playing that way so honestly that's mainly all we do now.

Thanks everyone this is really reassuring. HV was less reassuring and suggested wider motor issues might come through if limited tummy time... sigh. I expect my LO may just end up bum shuffling rather than crawling.

Never did tummy time with mine. Ds didn't with his ds and dgs walked at 7 months!

Never did it with mine....they are absolutely fine!

This trend for finding more and more sticks to beat parents with is quite ridiculous.

Mine both hated tummy time, hardly did it, never held them back with crawling and walking, definitely don't force it.

Let her roll around on her playmat and explore herself without deliberately putting her in her tummy and take HV opinions with a pinch of salt! Not always correct with things in my experience and never let them make you doubt anything.

Mine didn't do a lot of it as he had bad reflux, and he managed to roll, sit up, crawl/walk perfectly fine. Think they push tummy time too much. Just do what you can!

@Chocolatetrifle

Let her roll around on her playmat and explore herself without deliberately putting her in her tummy and take HV opinions with a pinch of salt! Not always correct with things in my experience and never let them make you doubt anything.

This is a great approach. Just be led by them

Nah it’s over rated. With my DD she would just fall straight to sleep, as soon as she could roll she always slept on her front. She never crawled but walked at 9 months. DS rolled straight back over the first time we tried it at 8 weeks. Whenever you put him down on his front he just flips straight back. He didn’t clearly didn’t need the practice to learn to roll!

All my children disliked tummy time.
However my last child was premature and I was told how important it is for children to crawl for their gross motor strength and it’s important neurologically (something to do with the left and the right brain working in sync).
My child’s physio recommended instead of tummy time placing them over my leg while I sat down on the floo. I had to put my legs straight out. Place the baby in between your legs and tummy over your thigh and place toys in front of them to reach, grab and play with. I did this a couple of times every day and they crawled and much preferred it to tummy time.

My 9yo hated tummy time, and would scream his head off whenever we tried so I didn’t push it. He never crawled, only bum shuffled, and has never had any motor issues - plays football multiple times a week, excellent swimmer.
7yo loved tummy time, crawled and yet he’s the one with motor issues. Yes it may help develop neck muscles, but it’s not the only way and you won’t be consigning your child to a lifetime of motor issues if you don’t press it.

Mine hated tummy time but could sit up at 4 months - she’s almost two so this is hardly in years gone by.
She was quite sicky so didn’t like being on her front but did like being upright.
Crawled around 8 months and walked before a year (can’t remember when exactly!)