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Be honest... how often do you do tummy time?
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Anonymous
| 2 month old DS HATES it. At best, we get in 5 minutes a day. I'd like to know the unvarnished truth about how long people REALLY do it...not what you hear in mom circles. |
Anonymous
| We hardly ever did it. Baby hated it, I wasn't going to push it. Both kids are fine, no lasting scars |
Anonymous
| She can do about 10 min on the floor, over a blanket - but I don't put her every day because I just forget. However, she does TONS on our bellies. She is a little shy of 2 months. |
Anonymous
| We did it all the time starting soon after birth. People thought I was crazy starting it so early but I had heard of so many babies that didn't start right away and hated it. Because of the lack of tummy time all physical milestones, sitting up, pulling up, crawling and walking, have been pushed back. People think my children did things really early but they were consistent with the old time table. |
Anonymous
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We started ASAP after the twins were born and if they were awake and content - they were on their bellies.
I think what really helped is having those playmats that have the little pillow that you can prop them up on. |
Anonymous
Same here. I'm not really a pushy mom (no insult intended, just I'm pretty laid back). He's fine. If he had started to develop a flattened area on his head, or any other issues, I would have worked on it more. |
Anonymous
| who invented it anyway??? never heard if it where I come from!!!! |
Anonymous
| Around two months our daughter didn't love it either, but we tried anyway and if she only lasted a minute or two, so be it. Now (6 months) all she wants to do is be on her tummy. Keep trying. As other posters said, it is important for development. We all slept on our tummies, so our parents didn't have to do tummy time. |
Anonymous
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I always forgot to do it until a friend said she did it after every diaper change for a couple of minutes in the crib while she went to wash her hands. That worked for us. And, eventually tummy time was OK to the baby. By the time he could roll, it was all tummy all the time.
Another friend's kid hated tummy time until he was like 6 months. Then, he just decided it was time to sit instead. Never really rolled much, just went to sitting and then crawling. Point is...they'll be fine regardless. So just enjoy the pre-mobility days while they last!!!"" |
Anonymous
| 9:29 it didn't use to be necessary, babies naturally got tummy time because they were put on their tummies to sleep. with the back to sleep campaigns, kids are not developing the upper body strength and motor skills. there are a lot of options that can make it more fun, prop them on a boppy so their hands are free to play, look into those mats that have a support that spins, etc. according to the research it really does seem to matter if kids crawl, etc. so it's best to give them opportunities to physically develop. a good read on all this is a book called something like "what's really going on in there", it's about neurological development and was written by a mom who is a scientist. |
Anonymous
No one invented it. Decades ago children slept on their stomachs here and so it was natural for them. Now we don't do that and as a result they need to do it to strengthen their neck and arms so that they can crawl. Look it totally sucked for both our kids but we did it religiously, usually breaking it up into two or three times during the day. Our kids crawled and walked quickly. I'm sure you will find some parents who didn't if you are really looking for permission to blow it off. But there are a lot of flat headed kids out there because they took a long time to roll/crawl and just basically were on their backs too long. |
Anonymous
| You can also strengthen the neck and arm muscles in other ways. If you search online for articles on not doing tummy time you will find a good number of resources. There are a lot of people who don't agree with putting a baby in a position that they can't get themselves out of. Many parents work with their child on turning and lifting their head and reaching for things just out of their grasp, making sure to do both sides equally. This teaches the child to rollover sooner and once they can roll themselves over they usually don't mind "tummy time" because they can get themselves out of it. |
Anonymous
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Very rarely, and my son still rolled over front-to-back for the first time at 7.5 weeks, back to front at 4 months, walked at 8.5 months. I know, he's a prodigy and is going to be the next superstar athlete at 14.
But I digress. He found it somewhat more tolerable with a Boppy under his chest, instead of being flat on the floor. |
Anonymous
| my son hated it when he was two/three months...so he got about 10 minutes,maybe 15 minutes a day. my daughter on the otherhand, LOVED tummy time and each day she had more and more time on her tummy. So much so that she began rolling over from back to tummy before she reached four months! you shouldn't be worried though--my son ended up just fine! |
Anonymous
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My DD only tolerated tummy while while naked. We got in about 15 mins a day on average. She started to walk at 10 months. My DS loves it as we have at least 30 mins a day. He'd do more but I forget to place him that way.
I agree with the PP that it didn't used to be necessary when we all slept on our bellies. |