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Be honest... how often do you do tummy time?
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Anonymous
| About a minute a day, and the lack of it didn't seem to hurt our 8-month-old. Our ped told us that at worst, it delays advances like sitting up by a couple weeks. |
Anonymous
| Since his godmother is a physical therapist, he got plenty of tummy time with her. I have no idea how she managed his misery so well. He didn't last a minute with me before bursting into tears, and was back in my arms for a half hour of apologies. (They are so tiny yet so very expressive at 8 weeks!) One day, it just didn't seem to bother him anymore. He was more interested in seeing and touching the things around him. Tummy time increased with his appreciation for it. |
Anonymous
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My DD started daycare this week and now looooves tummy time. I suspect its from watching the older infants (she's almost 4 months) walking and crawling.
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Anonymous
| Please do tummy time! Our DS hated it too so we didn't do it and he ended up with TWO helmets for flat head. Incredibly time consuming, emotionally draining and expensive. It might not have been avoided with tummy time, but I certainly wish we'd tried... |
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cmkeough
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DD is now 25 months old, and I was horrible about doing tummy time. I wish I had done tummy time more, DD wasn't a big fan of it and I wasn't very persistant about it either. I will however make tummy time more important with my next child (due in 9 wks). DD's head had a slight flat spot and I feel that because we didn't do enough tummy time she didn't have the muscle strength to pull herself to a sitting position as most infants did. Also, she was delayed in other aspects as well, pulling herself up, and crawling too. I think those were linked to not having enough tummy time. She was a late walker, but talked very eary (and is a very excellent communicator now) which I don't think was due to less tummy time, but looking back I think it is quite important.
-CK |