@tumbleweed-1 I don’t do any tummy time with my babies. I hold them upright on my chest a lot so they get plenty of time to lift their heads. I don’t want my babies rolling early, crawling early, or walking early. Lay in one spot for as long as you possibly can so I can sit down and relax sometimes. I have zero desire to go running after you getting you out of all the things.
I would flip my last baby any time he was about to roll. Then when he started crawling I would move him back to the floor when he started pulling to stand. The pediatrician asked me if he was rolling yet and I said no and told her we weren’t really working on it. So she laid him on his stomach and he started to roll. I picked him up and said, “we’ve seen enough.” I did all those things to keep him from being an early Walker and the boy still walked earlier than any of my other kids at 10.5 months. I was so sad.
@emeraldcity603 what a busy little one! That’s so early. I agree tummy time on a chest is good enough tummy time. I don’t know what the concern is, they all learn to move as best as they can in their own time.
@tumbleweed-1 seriously! My daughter didn't walk until 17 months but she was a LIGHTNING FAST crawler. She just knew she could get where she wanted faster without stumbling there, until one day she stood up and took off running. Caught my husband and me TOTALLY by surprise. But she's also been speaking in complete sentences since 16 months or so, so we weren't remotely concerned about her gross motor not being there yet. Everyone says they seem to excel in verbal but lag in motor, or vice versa, and that was totally our experience...but it isn't like she was going to kindergarten not knowing how to walk. (Frankly it made life easier for her to be able to verbally tell us what she wanted and not just walk off to try to do it, rather than the other way around!)
@ki1244 yes we had the exact opposite with DS! Super fast crawler by 5.5 months, walked (and ran) right at 12 months, and was delayed on speech until around 16 months. It makes sense because he didn’t sit still, so he was rarely paying attention to us! I imagine if he was a little less intense on the gross motor he would’ve laid a bit more attention to us talking and started trying it out sooner 😂 I’m glad that now at 20mo it has evened out and he’s saying 4 word phrases. But my hope is to have the opposite with this new baby… I’m sure the grass is always greener but it was a tough stretch of time to keep track of him and understand him when he had so few words.
DS was suuuper early with all of his motor skills. He could hold his head up the day he was born, crawling at 4months, took his first steps at like 8months fell over then didn’t try again until 10/11 months old when he just took off. He didn’t really talk much until 3 so was very behind in the verbal development. Now at 7 it’s translating to difficulty grasping reading. He’s still very much advanced in his motor skills though
it’s so interesting how different they all are. Mine didn't walk until 16 months or so and didn’t really talk until 2.5- he signed some and had a couple intelligible words. He focused on fine motor first. He could throw a ball overhand still laying on his belly and was stacking 8+ blocks at the time the ESQ asked if he could stack 3/4.
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