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15 Sep 🥴🥴🥴Are you guilty of these 3 Common Mistakes with Tummy Time?

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Tummy Time is essential for 👶🏻newborns babies because it helps babies to develop their neck muscle strength against gravity so that they can help to hold their head up and start to look around. Tummy Time is the basic foundational skill to all gross motor skills and movements that baby needs to learn in order to be able to roll, sit, crawl and walk.

However, most new mothers 🥴will attest to the challenges with Tummy Time and their newborn babies. The initial phase of establishing Tummy Time with baby is crucial as it literally makes or breaks the habits and learning behaviour that baby adopts.

Here are 3 Common Mistakes that new parents make when they are helping baby learn Tummy Time:
😬Mistake #1:
Doing Tummy Time right after a feed, resulting in baby vomiting when they are on their tummy.

Instead do Tummy Time when baby wakes up and before feeds. Baby will be refreshed from a nap to play and will not vomit because their tummy is full from a feed.

😬Mistake #2:
Placing baby on the floor to do Tummy Time. When baby is just a newborn, they lack neck muscle strength and control, so they lie face flat into the ground and become distressed.

Instead place baby on a fat, firm pillow in a kneeling position, shoulders supported so that baby can lift their head up and look from side to side. Place bright colourful toys in front of baby to attract their attention.

😬Mistake #3:
Picking baby up immediately when they grizzle or cry. This teaches baby that when they cry, Tummy Time stops and they get picked up, resulting in behavourial tantrums.

Instead, pat and settle baby before picking them up so that baby learns they are picked up when they are calm and they remain on Tummy Time despite tantrums.

If you are struggling with Tummy Time for your baby, ring My Favourite Physio 📱on (02) 9790 4233 or DM us @myfavouritephysio to speak with one of our Expert Paediatric Physiotherapists🤓 today!

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