I just wonder, did people 10000 years ago put their babies on tummies? I guess not. But still they managed to grow up and be physical developed.

Thank you. I needed to hear this❤

I read all the possible scientific studies on the benefits of tummy time. All pointed to the same conclusion: tummy time doesn’t give any long-term advantages. It does speeds up the motor skills development, but the difference lasts very little. Plus that the differences can be mostly observed between babies that do a lot of tummy time by being put to sleep on their bellies (yes, there still are parents that put their babies to sleep on their bellies!!), and babies that never do tummy time. However, babies that never do tummy time naturally develop the same motor skills soon, when they start crawling, so the long term benefits are still to be discovered. What does matter, according to the same studies, is to have the baby throughout the day in multiple positions by carrying and playing, and not leave them there forgotten in their crib for hours and hours. Anyway sorry for the essay here, I wish all the new parents and their babies all the health!💕

​@@user34user73more babies died back then. Good genes, resources, and luck were much more significant back then.

I have 8 kids. Tried tummy time with the first two. They hated hit so I didn't do it much. They hit all their milestones at the average time. Didn't worry about it with the other 6. They hit all their milestones fine as well.

Hold him on your chest while leaning back a little. My son also hated tummy so we did it like this for the first 4 months and it worked out well.

you sound dumb. rolling a swaddle or putting a boppy under them actually encourages them to lift their heads more - otherwise their heads will just fall straight forward. it just puts them more at an incline.

as soon as bringing them home from the hospital! if they are preemies wait until they are full term preferably

Once their umbilical cord falls off

You don't need it babies like tummy time lay them on the floor lay in front of them and talk to them or put them on the bed and sit on the floor and play and talk to them

They can’t. Too small yet. Expect head lifting by 5 months. You’re having too many expectation from a 3 month old. Don’t be disheartened. They all Come With their own body alarms. That’s when they do things on their own. Don’t push. It will happen.

I'm pretty sure it's not crying, and sometimes they have built up gas. Every baby is different too, maybe this little one didn't like it so much, it does kinda look bad to put that in when you're trying to say it works! But who knows. To me it almost looked like they were kinda smiling or something

Baby cry after every activity because they are babies and they get tired

it helps them learn to use their neck muscles and upper body muscles, its good for development

You are lucky my 5-week girl loves to cry a lot

@@litezhowey oh don't get me wrong, she loves to cry a lot... it's just that tummy time tends to chill her out almost instantly.

There's just so much wrong with this comment that I don't even know where to start. I don't know if this needs to be said because it's so obvious, but giving them a pillow during tummy time when they're a few months old is not going to affect their work ethic when they're adults. There are many, many years in between, when their brains are actually developed enough to even consider the concept of "hard work", where you can teach them the values of "struggling to build strength". They're still building strength while using the pillow. It's not like having the pillow makes them not use their neck muscles; it just makes it a little bit easier. The whole point is to get them strong enough so that they can start doing it without the pillow. It's no different from giving a child a bike with training wheels until they can balance on their own, or reading words aloud to them until they can read it on their own. I don't know what you did specifically for your children, but the fact that you could look at an infant and say "he needs to struggle to build strength" is pretty disturbing. Sounds like you're overcorrecting the coddling of your much older children. Hopefully you're not doling out this advice to new parents in your life.

I have done this and everything else but nothing worked with my little one.

Clean your floor first.

There is a mat down on the wooden floor in the video? And it's spelled Gross*

You are just got lucky. Sleeping on the tummies increases risk of Sudden unexpected infant death.

@@user34user73 Me and everyone else I know. This back sleeping business didn’t start until at least the 90’s. I don’t think direct proof between stomach sleeping and increased risk of Sid’s has ever been established. We all sleep so much better on our stomachs or sides.