Does baby prefer to roll over onto their back instead of staying on their tummy during #TummyTime? Then try these 4 tips to encourage baby to stay on their tummy! While rolling is an important 4-6 month milestone (It's great that baby loves to roll!), you should also still try to encourage baby to work on Tummy Time. Tummy Time helps baby to strengthen the muscles they need to sit, crawl, and walk. ➡️ View more Tummy Time tips here: https://pathways.org/topics-of-development/tummy-time/#5 | Path

Tummy to sit transition can be started once your baby is sitting independently-this is usually started between 7-8 months of age. ⭐️ This exercises helps with: ✔️ Learning to transition from the floor into sitting independently ✔️ Strengthening of the upper extremities-shoulders, arms and triceps ✔️ Strengthening of the core muscles, specifically good for the oblique muscles ⭐️ Remember to practice on both sides! ⭐️⭐️⭐️ More exercises like this and others can be found in my book: The Infant Mobi

Babies sometimes don’t know what to do with their body in tummy time so they try to use some of their biggest muscles, their legs! This would look like kicking their legs, arching their back so that their booty is lifted off the ground or even little booty pops! I’ll hear parents tell me that their baby is crawling as a newborn and what they’re actually doing is moving their legs in such interesting ways during tummy time that they inch forward. In early tummy time, we really want the focus to b

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