Super dumb question...

adoxyinherear

Now that DD is a rolling machine, I'm curious: how do babies find the sitting position on their own? Rolling seems natural, but pulling herself up to sit, I guess I just can't see how this will occur to her. We hold her in our laps and I'll occasionally lift her up into a sitting position, but we don't put her in a Bumbo or an exersaucer or anything like that (and we don't plan to, we try to keep it light on the baby gear).

So, there's my dumb parenting question for the day. How did your LOs learn to sit up?

crystalknpp

I think they learn to roll back to belly first so that they can use there arms to push themselves up from a belly position to a sitting up position?  We have an infant seat and a bouncer/walker that we put DS in but most of the time if were sitting on the couch etc. I just prop him up with a pillow and let him sit next to us.  Also after we do tummy time I'll lay him on his back and let him grab onto my fingers/hands and pull himself up to a sitting position.  I do this a lot to after changing him or when I'm getting him out of his crib.

Missa_g

Sitting up from being on their belly didn't happen until they were crawling. They swing one leg in front and push up, kind of leaning to one side, then swing their other leg around and sit straight. I'm probably failing to describe it adequately. In the meantime help your kid learn to sit by having them sit on your lap, on the floor with a boppy/pillow around them etc. It's incredible how they learn these things. A month ago I would have sworn my boys would never figure it out, it just didn't seem possible. Then one day they just do it.

ETA: I know you like to keep it light on baby gear but I highly recommend the Vtech sit to stand walker to help them learn to sit. We won't be using it as a walker, but having a toy with lots of buttons that they have to reach for helped my boys learn some stability while sitting.

Junebug060609

He didn't get himself to a sit until he was crawling. He'd be crawling on all fours and then drop a side of his hip to plop into a sit.

He'd been sitting if I put him that way for almost four months before he crawled...pretty late crawler over here, he preferred to roll to get around.

adoxyinherear

Thanks so much for sharing your experiences, ladies! We really want to do BLW and I know it's important for DD to be working on sitting up well for that.

xleslieraex

Do you have a boppy pillow? We used that to help support M, just sit him in the middle of it.

MickeyM04

...DS still isn't sitting up on his own but I will echo PPs responses that I think they have to be crawling first.  Or at least in that position of being on hands and knees.  I think it would be really hard for them to go from flat on back/stomach into a sit position.  Probably why DS still isn't doing it yet; he still just belly crawls.

So not a dumb question at all!

adoxyinherear

So maybe the dumb questions will have to keep flowing... if she's wobbly when we sit her up (suuuuper wobbly), how will we feed her? Just in our laps, for now? DH is really eager to try this chair we got her that hooks on to the table, but I just don't see her being able to hold herself up at all. We could wedge some blankets in there, I guess. We're not planning to begin BLW in earnest until 6 months.

Missa_g

RusalkaSings:

So maybe the dumb questions will have to keep flowing... if she's wobbly when we sit her up suuuuper wobbly, how will we feed her? Just in our laps, for now? DH is really eager to try this chair we got her that hooks on to the table, but I just don't see her being able to hold herself up at all. We could wedge some blankets in there, I guess. We're not planning to begin BLW in earnest until 6 months.

Do you mean bottle feeding? We still snuggle for bottles even though they're capable of sitting and holding their own. For solids we do puffs on their play mat and they'll either eat while they're on their bellies or sit up, or we give them a bite while they're sitting in our lap. We also have highchairs with three settings. We put it slightly reclined until their core was stronger.

adoxyinherear

Missa_g:

RusalkaSings:

So maybe the dumb questions will have to keep flowing... if she's wobbly when we sit her up suuuuper wobbly, how will we feed her? Just in our laps, for now? DH is really eager to try this chair we got her that hooks on to the table, but I just don't see her being able to hold herself up at all. We could wedge some blankets in there, I guess. We're not planning to begin BLW in earnest until 6 months.

Do you mean bottle feeding? We still snuggle for bottles even though they're capable of sitting and holding their own. For solids we do puffs on their play mat and they'll either eat while they're on their bellies or sit up, or we give them a bite while they're sitting in our lap. We also have highchairs with three settings. We put it slightly reclined until their core was stronger.

I'm sorry, I wasn't being very clear. I meant feeding solids, since we're hoping to skip spoon feeding and just go straight to solids she can have safely (steamed veggies, etc.).

Missa_g

RusalkaSings:

Missa_g:

RusalkaSings:

So maybe the dumb questions will have to keep flowing... if she's wobbly when we sit her up suuuuper wobbly, how will we feed her? Just in our laps, for now? DH is really eager to try this chair we got her that hooks on to the table, but I just don't see her being able to hold herself up at all. We could wedge some blankets in there, I guess. We're not planning to begin BLW in earnest until 6 months.

Do you mean bottle feeding? We still snuggle for bottles even though they're capable of sitting and holding their own. For solids we do puffs on their play mat and they'll either eat while they're on their bellies or sit up, or we give them a bite while they're sitting in our lap. We also have highchairs with three settings. We put it slightly reclined until their core was stronger.

I'm sorry, I wasn't being very clear. I meant feeding solids, since we're hoping to skip spoon feeding and just go straight to solids she can have safely (steamed veggies, etc.).

Sitting in your lap or highchair is perfect! We do BLW and have had no problems with those methods.

adoxyinherear

Missa_g:

RusalkaSings:

Missa_g:

RusalkaSings:

So maybe the dumb questions will have to keep flowing... if she's wobbly when we sit her up suuuuper wobbly, how will we feed her? Just in our laps, for now? DH is really eager to try this chair we got her that hooks on to the table, but I just don't see her being able to hold herself up at all. We could wedge some blankets in there, I guess. We're not planning to begin BLW in earnest until 6 months.

Do you mean bottle feeding? We still snuggle for bottles even though they're capable of sitting and holding their own. For solids we do puffs on their play mat and they'll either eat while they're on their bellies or sit up, or we give them a bite while they're sitting in our lap. We also have highchairs with three settings. We put it slightly reclined until their core was stronger.

I'm sorry, I wasn't being very clear. I meant feeding solids, since we're hoping to skip spoon feeding and just go straight to solids she can have safely (steamed veggies, etc.).

Sitting in your lap or highchair is perfect! We do BLW and have had no problems with those methods.

Thanks so much for all of your help, Missa... also, I love seeing posts from you and admiring your little guy's R2 helmet

authorofdreamz

Are you asking about sitting unassisted or actually getting themselves to a seated position? Those are different things and usually happen separately. DD started sitting unassisted around 6m, we would sit her up and she would stay. Before that we would prop her up in the corner of the couch or in the Boppy and then as she started getting stronger and not leaning on them as much for support we would practice sitting her up after tummy time and it gradually became longer and longer until she could do it on her own indefinitely. She didn't learn how to get herself into a seated position until after she learned to crawl at 10m and then she'd get on all fours and back up into a seated position.

We started feeding her solids (cereal) at 4m in a high chair that reclined back when we started her on non-pureed solids at 6m she was able to use it without the recline.

adoxyinherear

dotmbc:

Kind of a funny story....a friend of mine had a little girl who was about 5 and a half months. My friend was reading an article about developmental milestones and it said around 5 or 6 months they can sit up. So she just put her on the floor to see....and she could sit. Viola! No practicing required! Obviously, my friend is very chill about letting her kid develop at her own pace...I should probably take a lesson from her and cool it with the "is my kid on track" bs.

I try to stay chill... sometimes I succeed. Mostly I want to let DD go at her own pace, and my question mostly comes from wanting to be sure she'll be safe to start solids at 6 months. She's not sitting up unassisted at all at this point, so, our laps may just end up covered in food