15 yrs, 10 mths ago

baby hates tummy time

My 6 mth old daughter hates being on her tummy and she doesnt like being on her back on the floor much either. My son now three loved being on the floor and was crawling at 4 mths old. Im worried she wont crawl she doesnt seem to even be close to rolling over am i expecting to much from her so soon as my DS crawled early? she was also a prem baby but that shouldnt make a difference should it?

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  • 15 yrs, 6 mths ago

    as a few people have mentioned, tummy time doesn`t have to be on the floor. our baby wouldn`t let us put her down at all for the first 8 weeks! so we carried her around with us everywhere, in a sling, a pouch or just in our arms, and she pushed against us and got very strong neck muscles quickly. the books and advice are great guides, but no-one else has had your baby. esp with a premmie, let her take things at her own pace. she`s got the rest of her life to sit, walk, eat spinach, whatever. my cousin was 6 weeks prem, really small and weedy throughout childhood, and he`s now 6`4″”. it`s no indicator of what`s to come. i know it`s hard when every man and his dog has an opinion, just say, oh well, she`s only small, and change the subject. stuff `em!

  • 15 yrs, 7 mths ago

    Have you got a play gym above her when she is on the floor? My little one loved using his play gym both on his back and on his tummy. He wasnt a fan of tummy time but when i got down with him and talked to him, sang to him and played with him he slowly built up his tolerance and grew to love it 🙂 The key is persistence.

  • Bronze
    15 yrs, 7 mths ago

    Hi,
    My son never liked tummy time. So he just never got it. He is now crawling around like a mad mad monkey and will be walking soon. I wouldn`t worry about her disliking it. If you are worried about her development I would talk to you maternal and child nurse or doctor. They can advise you what is normal. Especially for a premmie. Have fun.

  • Bronze
    15 yrs, 7 mths ago

    My lil guy didn`t like tummy time either but i just persisted starting off with 5 minutes and then working my up until he started enjoying it, therewere days where he wasn`t interested and that was fine I just tried again and again until he started liking it

  • 15 yrs, 9 mths ago

    try lying on the floor with her, that way she has the comfort of you being there and she may get used to it

  • 15 yrs, 9 mths ago

    remember as i tell my mum friends all children are different and as some do things earlier and some later most of the time its all normal . my daughter hated being on her tummy but after puting her on it every now and then taught herself to roll onto her back and got over her tummy trauma haha but do speak to your doc or healthcare nurse to set your mind at ease

  • 15 yrs, 9 mths ago

    I agree glamourcat use your instinct and trust them. Funny you should bring up the mum with the MBA, people we know who are “”so called”” intellectuals (self processed!) used to call their son the wonder child, expecting him to be super intelligent like them. The kid struggles in school despite being bought up on classical music and flash cards and is one of the most dishonest kids I`ve ever met. Every decision they ever made was based on books because they figured it was the “”smart”” thing to do. special diets has led to countless allergies, constant cleaning has led to intollerance of bacteria, you name it, he`s had it. Poor kid. I think at some point you have to let “”Mother and Father Instinct”” to take over.

  • 15 yrs, 9 mths ago

    eles, don`t you just hate all that conflicting advice!?! it gets so confusing… I would courteously listen to peoples advice, but I didn`t take much notice, just nodded in the right places — I just followed my instincts and refuted all of that annoying `advice`… for me it all came naturally, I worked it all out and everything always turned out fine… I have friends who never listened to their own instincts or `gut` but they read all the books and listened to all the dribble everyone fed them, yet their kids have turned out to be disobedient, spoilt brats, unruly, even one with learning difficulties and he got kept back in grade Prep (yet my friend, his mother, has an MBA and thought her kids would all be geniuses!).

    Everyone always comments on how polite and sweet my daughter is and how well she does at school – yet I didn`t follow the `rules`, I just followed instincts…

    back on topic – my girl didn`t like tummy time much either at first then one day she started doing the `commando crawl` and progressed to crawling, she didn`t start walking til she was about 14 months either – but then again she was saying her first words at 3 months “”bye bye nanna”” and was saying “”here kitty, kitty, kitty”” by 6 months (we have a lot of cats!)… she could say Barbie before she could say mum and dad… every child is different and I think there would be a lot less anxiety and depression if people followed their instincts instead of listening to what worked for everyone else…

  • 15 yrs, 9 mths ago

    i know. it annoys me because hubby often makes the comments. i got really cross with him today so told him if he knows better then he can look after him today. guess what, i am sitting here listening to a screaming overtired baby. gee, maybe i do know best.

  • 15 yrs, 9 mths ago

    You know, now that I look back the thing I found most difficult about becoming a new mum was the doubt I had about myself when given so much advice. I breast fed too often, I cuddled my son to sleep, I blended his food for too long (he had a strong gag reflex) in fact just about everything I did seemed to extract an opinion from well meaning relatives and friends. My boy was fast to walk, slow to talk, a fussy eater, very sleepy and placid and very slow to toilet train…oh, and he had a security blanket for too long and needed me to sit with him until he slept when he was afraid of monsters. I did so much wrong that its a wonder the child ever made it to 10. But he did and now he is a sensitive, confident and healthy 13 year old. Somehow it all works out if you give them your time and love.

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