This episode I cover Tummy Time and how best to support your baby with courage, knowledge, and true success.
Growth and development are NOT linear.
Each child follows their own developmental rhythm, so not all babies will reach these stages at the same time, and sometimes they get bunched together.
It's a progression. It's necessary beyond strength and coordination.
Listen through and learn how it builds conscious intellectual activity!
Tummy Time supports:
- Visual skills / depth perception - visual & auditory connection/integration
- Open up hands / thumb - grabbing and picking small items (utensils, object play)
- Prevents / mitigate plagiocephaly & torticollis
- Lengthen & strengthen front of the body: roll-over, sit-up, crawl, stand & walk
- Baby Led Weaning introduces solid foods around ~ 6 months
- START with goal of 1-2 mins for every wake period / broken up in 24 hrs
- Think BURSTS: provide a few seconds on your chest, football position, or lap
- Around the second month introduce floor with a towel rolled up under him/her
- TOYS to distract are very helpful
- But remember... YOU are his #1 toy. You are her love interest.
- By 3 months work toward 60 mins of tummy time broken up throughout the whole day ... sprinkled across each waking period
THE PURPOSE HERE is to find clarity & provide a place where moms can find peace knowing they don’t have to figure it out on their own.
It’s good for all of us - babies, children and adults - to push ourselves OUT OF OUR COMFORT ZOME just a little bit ... and then practice things that are a bit hard.
That's how we grow.
That's healthy development.
That's progress.
That's living.
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