After reading the prior post on what all of our LOs are doing, I am a little nervous about DD being behind. She is delayed a little because of her vision since she had cataract surgery at 1 month old and now has to wear a contact lens and glasses to be able to see well. So her vision wasn't corrected until she was almost 2 months. It seems like every other baby I know has hit milestones a head of DD.
She isn't grabbing for any toys yet and hasn't found her feet. She has been smiling and has started to giggle somewhat, but was slow to start smiling (probably due to her vision). She will not use her arms at all to push herself up during tummy time and just barely started lifting her head up off the pillow at all (she never seems interested in looking at me or her toys during tummy time.)
Is this normal for an almost 4 month old? Are we doing ok? Her 4 month appointment is in a week and a half, I am just so afraid that we aren't working with her enough to help her develop, although I am not quite sure what would really help either. We do tummy time usually twice a day for 5 - 10 minutes.
Re: DD's development
DS just found his feet this week and still isn't really into them. I can see how the grabbing for toys and smiling would be affected by her vision. Regarding tummy time, we basically rotate DS through different positions all day long so that he gets plenty of time off his head.
When he wakes up we do, say, 15 min. on his back on his play mat, then take him over to a blanket and put him on his tummy until he gets grumpy, roll him over and talk to him/play games/show him books for a bit, then back to his tummy until he fusses, roll him back over for more books/rattles & toys to practice grabbing/songs/wiggling time, then back onto his tummy, etc. All of that tummy practice seemed to help because he got strong pretty fast.
Now that he's sitting in the bumbo pretty well, we're doing less back time and more sitting up time while we show him books, hold a large wall mirror in front of him, etc. We still do almost as much tummy time as before to help him get ready for crawling.
Babies develop on their own schedule - your pedi can give you some guidelines as to what your dd should be doing around each month, but nothing's set in stone! Some do things a little earlier than others, some a little later. Discuss your concerns with your doc, but I'm sure you'll find out that it's no big deal!
Here is a milestone chart. There's a big range of what is normal for every month.
https://www.babycenter.com/0_milestone-chart-1-to-6-months_1496585.bc
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